Affiliation vs Acquaintance - What's the difference?
affiliation | acquaintance | Related terms |
The relationship resulting from affiliating one thing with another.
A club, society or umbrella organisation so formed, especially a trade union.
(uncountable) A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy
* 1799 , '', in ''The Works , Volume 6,
(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
* 1848 , , Chapter XVI:
As nouns the difference between affiliation and acquaintance
is that affiliation is the relationship resulting from affiliating one thing with another while acquaintance is a state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy.affiliation
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(en noun)acquaintance
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(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* acquaintaunceNoun
(en noun)- I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.
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- Contract no friend?hip, or even acquaintance , with a guileful man : he re?embles a coal, which when hot burneth the hand, and when cold blacketh it.
- Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.