Familiarity.

Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

Latin: Nimia familiarĭtas contemptum parit.

French: La familiarité engendre le mépris.

Italian: La famigliarità fà dispregiamento.

“E tribus optimis rebus tres pessimæ oriuntur: e veritate odium; e familiaritate contemptus; e felicitate invidia.”—Plutarch (translated).

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Falling Bands
Falling Sickness
Falling Stars
Fallow Land
False (The Rule of)
False Ceiling
Falstaff
Falutin (High)
Familiar
Familiar Spirits
Familiarity
Familists
Family
Fan
Fan-light (A)
Fanatic
Fancy
Fancy-free
Fancy Man (A)
Fancy-sick
Fanesii