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Definition of Conversance
1. Noun. Personal knowledge or information about someone or something.
Generic synonyms: Information
Derivative terms: Acquaint, Conversant, Conversant, Familiar, Familiar
Definition of Conversance
1. n. The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy.
Definition of Conversance
1. Noun. The condition of being conversant ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Conversance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conversance
Literary usage of Conversance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English by Charles John Smith (1893)
"... commonly chosen for his skill and conversance with the subject-matter of the
question ; the arbitrator, for his good-temper and impartiality ; the cases ..."
2. Exploratio Philosophica by John Grote (1900)
"In reality, the conversance of our senses with external objects and the formation
by our mind of the ideas of the objects are the same thing looked at from ..."
3. Aniruddha's Commentary and the Original Parts of Vedântin Mahâdeva's by Aniruddha, Mahādevānandasarasvatī, Mahādeva Vedāntin (1892)
"What, therefore, is effected by the conversance [with the meaning of the vedic
words] P” To this [the author] replies: Sacrifices and time like as such are ..."
4. The Book Collector: a General Survey of the Pursuit and of Those who Have by William Carew Hazlitt, Hector Carsewell Macpherson (1904)
"... one who is a bookseller by vocation, but who enjoys no conversance with
bibliographical niceties. His principal consequently scores very poorly by ..."
5. Thomas and Matthew Arnold and Their Influence on English Education by Joshua Girling Fitch (1898)
"... sort of conversance with the forms, fashions, notions, wordings, allusions of
literature having its source in Greece and Rome; but they have given them ..."
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