sense of familiarity

collocation in English

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sense
noun
uk
/sens/us
/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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familiarity
noun[U]
uk
/fəˌmɪl.iˈær.ə.ti/us
/fəˌmɪl.iˈer.ə.t̬i/
a good knowledge of something, or the fact that you know it ...
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(Definition ofsenseandfamiliarityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsense of familiarity

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Based on cultural identity, these networks may provide asenseoffamiliarityand security in otherwise foreign contexts.
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Throughout, the choreographer's relationship with the site evolves and develops through a process of negotiation informed by a developingsenseoffamiliarityand associated osmosis.
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The precisesenseoffamiliarityand substantial equivalence in regulatory processes has been the object of important debates.
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Identity is thus based on the memory of events that happened there, on asenseoffamiliaritywith the surroundings, and on shared social relations with people one knows well.
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Therein may lie this reading's main merit, as it disables an unreflectivesenseoffamiliaritywith the site's symbolic content and with the people who produced it.
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The band did not soundproof the room, instead desiring to just go with it, which produced asenseoffamiliarity.
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The characters appear to be designed to evoke asenseoffamiliarityin preschoolers.
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Such a partial perception then results in a falsesenseoffamiliarity.
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Many of his parks contain residential scale elements such as pergolas and enclosed patio-like areas that create asenseoffamiliarityand intimacy.
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Therefore, people sometimes take fluency as an indication that a stimulus is familiar even though thesenseoffamiliarityis false.
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Unconscious transference occurs in this instance when the witness misattributes his or hersenseoffamiliarityof the perpetrator to a bystander.
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Semantic musical memory involves thesenseoffamiliarityof songs.
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The connection creates asenseoffamiliaritywhich results in the individual's identity becoming attached to their mobile service provider.
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The use of simulated feline facial pheromone can reduce the activation of the sympathetic nervous system and reduce stress through asenseoffamiliarity.
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Stitching also utilizes the standard two-dimensional fabrics that are commonly in use within the composite industry therefore there is asenseoffamiliarityconcerning the material systems.
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The main principle behind the callback is to make the audience feel asenseoffamiliaritywith the subject matter, as well as with the comedian.
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The music is also intentionally composed with a recurring musical theme, so that the show can be easily recognized, adding asenseoffamiliarityeach time the show is viewed.
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It is important to recognize such spatial intentionality, to determine the offenders comfort zone and their desire to commit crimes in locations where they feel asenseoffamiliarity.
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Their choruses often grow to become appropriately noise drenched and swell with a dissonance, toying with chaos, yet somehow remaining elegant, often resolving with an underlyingsenseoffamiliarity.
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