Acquaintancy

/əˈkweɪntənsi/ noun

The state of being acquainted; knowledge or familiarity with someone or something obtained through meeting or experience.

From acquaintance with the variant suffix -cy (Latin -cia), which creates abstract nouns denoting states or conditions. Similar to how 'fraudulent' becomes 'fraudulency,' -cy changes adjectives and nouns into abstract state nouns.

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