= acquaintance, n. 3.

The fact of knowing or being acquainted with a thing, person, etc.; acquaintance; familiarity gained by experience.

The quality or condition of being homely (homely, adj. 2); simplicity, plainness; rusticity. Also: an instance of this.

Personal knowledge; knowledge gained from personal or direct experience; familiarity with a subject, matter, etc. Also with †of.

Knowledge of a thing or person through long or close association or frequent perception by any of the senses; everyday acquaintance, habituation…

The condition of being accustomed to something through having constantly to do with it; familiarity. on intimate habits: on intimate terms, familiar…

Interaction, dealings, communication.

Constant use of (something); familiarity, close acquaintance. Obsolete.

The quality of being well known from long or close association; (also) knowledge of or habituation to a thing or person. Cf. familiarity, n. 5.

figurative. Occupation or engagement with things, in the way of business or study; the resulting condition of acquaintance or intimacy with a matter.

Familiar engagement or occupation (with things); = conversation, n. 4. Obsolete.

The state of being acquainted with someone or something, familiarity. Also: an instance of this.

Closeness of observation, knowledge, or the like.

fancifully used by (and after) Coleridge for ‘intimate acquaintance’.

The quality of being habile; deftness; readiness; easy familiarity. rare.