Definition of "conversance" [con•ver•sance]

• The state of being conversant; familiarity. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "These are tough, Irish and Italian working-class towns, and anybody who claimed any kind of conversance with Emerson was an alien immediately."
• "The requirements include a minimum of 20 years of hands-on experience in the washing and finishing of hand-knotted carpets, 30 years 'experience in carpet management production, carpet experience in post-conflict regions, a minimum of 50 business relationships with high-end retailers in Europe and North America -- and conversance in French, German and Turkish."
• "Given the fact that the newspaper routinely printed stories about its fellow citizens that had only a passing conversance with the truth, no one was entirely certain that the brash young stranger had not come around looking for satisfaction."