Knowledge vs Familiarity - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Acknowledgement.
The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.
* 1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) :
Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.
* 1573 , George Gascoigne, "The Adventures of Master F.J.", An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction :
(obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice.
* 1580 , Edward Hayes, "Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland", Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern , ed. Charles W Eliot, Cosimo 2005, p. 280:
The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.
(countable) Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.
*, II.12:
*:he weakened his braines much, as all men doe, who over nicely and greedily will search out those knowledges , which hang not for their mowing, nor pertaine unto them.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) Notice, awareness.
* 1611 , The Bible, Authorized Version, Ruth II.10:
(UK, informal) The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.
* Malcolm Bobbitt, Taxi! - The Story of the London Cab
(obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge.
* 1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 3:
The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
*, II.8:
Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.
* 1927 , G K Chesterton, The Return of Don Quixote , p.5:
An instance of familiar behaviour.
Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
Familiarity is a synonym of knowledge.
As nouns the difference between knowledge and familiarity
is that knowledge is acknowledgement while familiarity is the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.As a verb knowledge
is to confess as true; to acknowledge.As a proper noun Knowledge
is a course of study which must be completed by prospective London taxi drivers; consists of 320 routes through central London and many significant places.knowledge
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(wikipedia knowledge)Alternative forms
* (obsolete) knolege, knowlage, knowleche, knowledg, knowlege, knowliche, knowlych, knowlech * knaulege, knaulage, knawlage * knoleche, knoleige, knowlache, knolych * knawlacheNoun
(en-noun)The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}
- He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid she had no knowledge of it.
- Every time that he had knowledge of her he would leave, either in the bed, or in her cushion-cloth, or by her looking-glass, or in some place where she must needs find it, a piece of money.
- Item, if any ship be in danger, every man to bear towards her, answering her with one light for a short time, and so to put it out again; thereby to give knowledge that they have seen her token.
- There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges .
- Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
- There is only one sure way to memorise the runs and that is to follow them, either on foot, cycle or motor cycle; hence, the familiar sight of would-be cabbies learning the knowledge during evenings and weekends.
Quotations
* 1996 , Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics , pages ix-x: *: There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992)..Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with “knowledge”: extensive, deep, superficial, theoretical, practical, useful, working, encyclopedic, public, private, scientific, tacit, explicit, general, specialized, special, broad, declarative, procedural, innate, etc.Derived terms
(terms derived from knowledge) * acknowledge * background knowledge * carnal knowledge * common knowledge * foreknowledge * general knowledge * interknowledge * knowledgeable or knowledgable * knowledge base * knowledge domain * knowledge engineer * knowledge is power * knowledge management * knowledge worker * metaknowledge * prior knowledge * protoknowledge * public knowledge * scientific knowledge * self-knowledge * sphere of knowledge * theory of knowledge * traditional knowledge * tree of knowledge * working knowledge * zero-knowledge proofSynonyms
* awareness * cognizance * * knowingness * learningAntonyms
* ignoranceVerb
- Then went oute to hym Jerusalem, and all Jury, and all the region rounde aboute Jordan, and were baptised of hym in Jordan, knoledging their synnes.
See also
* data * erudition * information * know-how * perception * wisdomExternal links
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Noun
(familiarities)- It is also folly and injustice to deprive childrenof their fathers familiaritie , and ever to shew them a surly, austere, grim, and disdainefull countenance, hoping thereby to keepe them in awfull feare and duteous obedience.
- Murrel did not in the least object to being called a monkey, yet he always felt a slight distaste when Julian Archer called him one.It had to do with a fine shade between familiarity and intimacy which men like Murrel are never ready to disregard, however ready they may be to black their faces.