Talk:familiarity

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I can't find examples of a familiarity meaning `An example of familiar behavior'. Perhaps somebody else can? Brett (talk) 11:27, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm the user who added that because I thought that the meaning of the countable form was missing. Enwikt has "An instance of familiar behaviour." and I simplified this definition, should this need correction? I found an example of "familiarities" (plural form) at [1], can this example help you? MathXplore (talk) 11:39, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

For now, I have replaced "example" with "instance" per the enwikt definition, and see if there is a simpler way without confusion. MathXplore (talk) 11:41, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

No, I understand the idea. And I can imagine it being used, but COCA, for example, has no instances of NUM familiarities. Brett (talk) 14:03, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

(Note for other readers) COCA=Corpus of Contemporary American English, NUM=numeral. MathXplore (talk) 14:08, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

I will try to find other examples for the plural form. I'm sorry if I have caused confusion. MathXplore (talk) 14:09, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Nothing at all to apologize about! Brett (talk) 11:56, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

For further information, an additional quick search allowed me to find more examples of the plural form, such as [2] and [3] (This is Weblio, a dictionary website explained in w:en:Weblio and w:ja:Weblio, and it cites Saito's Japanese English dictionary written by Hidezaburo Saito (w:ja:斎藤秀三郎) and published by Nichigai Associates (w:ja:日外アソシエーツ)). However, these are not the examples that include "NUM familiarities" as requested above. I will try to find further for such cases. MathXplore (talk) 14:41, 19 June 2024 (UTC)