The phrase "a familiarity for" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used when discussing a specific type of familiarity or knowledge that someone has regarding a subject or activity.
Example: "She developed a familiarity for the intricate details of the project after months of research."
Alternatives: "an understanding of" or "a knowledge of".
Work in dogs and primates further supports a familiarity effect for emotional contagion (Palagi et al., 2009; Campbell and de Waal, 2011; Silva et al., 2012).
At a meeting during the U.N. General Assembly in September, Trump praised Abe for "doing a wonderful job, doing a great job for the people of Japan". Abe, in turn, called his American counterpart "Donald" twice — a striking familiarity for etiquette-bound Japan.
We believe that this event is more likely because of a combination of several cardiologic risk factors such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension and a strong familiarity for ischaemic heart disease rather than previous administration of bevacizumab.
The space itself – with its chalkboard calendar and homemade shop fittings – will have an immediate familiarity for Portlandia viewers.
With life experiences like those behind her, the extreme plot machinations of Hollywood melodrama must have possessed an everyday familiarity for Stanwyck.
The end result of that journey was their creation of Little Global Citizens, a subscription service aimed at young children, which sends boxes designed to foster a familiarity and fondness for people around the world.
They represent a piece of our collective youth; they hold a familiarity and foundation for us.
It seems to me that Palin wants the full faith and credit given to a political figure that people know well, but she's not willing to submit to the tests of public faith that lead to a familiarity that allows for forgiveness.
There's a familiarity that's good for the fans and good for us players".
His experiments with various dialects cannot be conveyed in English, he explained, and his allusions to Arab mythology and history require a degree of familiarity for which the footnotes are a weak substitute.
