Synonyms for acquaintance
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Noun
1. Familiarity
familiarity, knowledge, intercourse, intimacy, fellowship, conversance, conversancy
Other
friend, experience, kith UK, acquaintanceship
Definitions
- n. 1
A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship.
I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.
Related words
- Word family
- acquaintanced acquaintanceship acquaint
- Phrases
- acquaintance rape nodding acquaintance bowing acquaintance
- Is a kind of
- person
Forms
- Plural
- acquaintances → familiarities, knowledges, intercourses, intimacies…
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Acquaintance between persons supposes that each knows the other; we may know a public man by his writings or speeches, and by sight, but can not claim acquaintance unless he personally knows us.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- knowledge Anna married without the knowledge of her parents.
- intimacy Yanni and Skura want to have moments of intimacy.
- intercourse Rodrigo expressed his desire to have intercourse.
- familiarity Love's intensity can wane as familiarity grows.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| acquaintance | steady | |
| knowledge | rising | |
| intimacy | rising | |
| intercourse | steady | |
| familiarity | rising | |
| acquaintanceship | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- kith
- 6 letters
- friend1
- 8 letters
- intimacy4
- 9 letters
- knowledge2
- 10 letters
- experience4, fellowship3
- 11 letters
- intercourse3, familiarity5, conversance, conversancy
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (intimacy4 = 4 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- accointance
- Deutsch
- Umgang