Specification vs Acquaintance - What's the difference?

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Specification is a related term of acquaintance.

As nouns the difference between specification and acquaintance

is that specification is specification while acquaintance is (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.

specification

English

Noun

(en noun)

An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.

acquaintance

English

(Webster 1913)

Alternative forms

* acquaintaunce

Noun

(en noun)

(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

I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.

* 1799 , '', in ''The Works , Volume 6, page 22:

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.

(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.

* 1848 , , Chapter XVI:

Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.

Usage notes

* Synonym notes: The words acquaintance , familiarity, and intimacy mark different degrees of closeness in social intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional intercourse; as, our acquaintance has been a brief one. We can speak of a slight or an intimate acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve; as, the familiarity of old companions. Intimacy is the result of close connection, and the freest interchange of thought; as, the intimacy of established friendship.

Synonyms

* familiarity, fellowship, intimacy, knowledge * See also

Derived terms

* nodding acquaintance

References

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