Typically a 'friend' within a website or online setting exclusively; which ironically don't allow for the depth of interaction, rapport and social connection that friends of a conventional nature share.
Her friends offered to drive her to her doctor's appointment; while her e-quaintance's weren't even aware she was ill.
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A person you have befriended via electronic communications, most commonly email but can include MMORPGs, MPOGs, Web Blogs, mail lists or Instant Message systems.
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1. An online acquaintance, regardless of whether you chat via text, voice, or video chat, and/or would recognize them in person.
2. Someone with whom you have acquainted, or continue to online, but have neither met, nor perceive - first and foremost - to be a friend, significant other, or another intimate relation.
3. A casual friend with whom you mostly or only interact online, who neither is nor was a close friend. e.g. most facebook friends
4. Someone with whom you would, will, or intend to meet in person, but whom you haven't met yet.
5. An a.i. acquaintance.
6. Siri
1. An online acquaintance, regardless of whether you chat via text, voice, or video chat, and/or would recognize them in person.
2. Someone with whom you have acquainted, or continue to online, but have neither met, nor perceive - first and foremost - to be a friend, significant other, or another intimate relation.
3. A casual friend with whom you mostly or only interact online, who neither is nor was a close friend. e.g. most facebook friends
4. Someone with whom you would, will, or intend to meet in person, but whom you haven't met yet.
5. An a.i. acquaintance.
6. Siri
Pleasure to make your electronic e-cquaintance!
Oh Jennifer? I don't really know her; we're just Facebook e-cquaintances.
We've been ecquainting for weeks ... let's meet!
Oh Jennifer? I don't really know her; we're just Facebook e-cquaintances.
We've been ecquainting for weeks ... let's meet!
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by anonymous January 11, 2023
Get the Equaintance mug.Ecquaintance is a new word to describe meeting someone new over email, text, or another form of contact within the digital sphere where a live initial connection is, or was not possible or yet established. A digital acquaintance. It could also be written as e-cquaintance. It substitutes words such as e-meet, in frases such as "e-meet you" because the parties have not actually met yet and it better describes the relationship between the two parties
"Nice to make your equaintance"
"I thoroughly enjoyed our ecquaintace"
"I'd like to set up an ecquaintance"
"I look forward to our ecquaintance"
"I thoroughly enjoyed our ecquaintace"
"I'd like to set up an ecquaintance"
"I look forward to our ecquaintance"
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