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/əˈkweɪntəns/ · noun
(uncountable) 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.
Contract no friendſhip, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man : he reſembles a coal, which when hot burneth the hand, and when cold blacketh it.
Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.
Having therefore conſulted with my Wife, and ſome of my Acquaintance, I determined to go again to Sea.
Their mother […] was busy in the mean time in keeping up her connections, as she termed a numerous acquaintance, lest her girls should want a proper introduction into the great world.
The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance.
Use acquaintance when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Acquaintance means (uncountable) 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..
Common synonyms include familiarity, fellowship, intimacy, knowledge.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.
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