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Frientances can have the power of friendship with the benefits of acquaintanceship. Social media plays a key role in frientanceships.

Frientances don't have to have common interests, common values, and the relationship might not be equal. In saying that, a good frientance is committed to your happiness and the frientanceship doesn't take president over the principles and morals of the parties involved. Frientances have a common history that binds them together. They are people who have left a legacy in your life.

The frientance has arisen due to social media. For people who have more than 150 friends on social media, it's impossible to be friends with all of them. Social media allows frientanceships to endure as frientances can follow each other and take part in each other's virtual lives. This virtuality is a key characteristic of frientanceships.

A good frientance treats everyone like a frientance and when the relationship transitions to the virtual space of social media, frientances engage in each other's experiences in a positive manner. You're not entitled to favours by your frientances, but they might be the connection you need for a new job, business opportunity, collaborator etc. Frientanceships can be powerful since they are a stronger form of weak ties and weak ties are great for networking.

Frientanceships are easy going. You can make as many frientances as you can, and some might evolve into friendships, but a good frientance will never turn into a stranger.
"How do you know that person?"

"He's a frientance... I helped him with his assignment when his uncle passed away a few years back. He was so nice, he gave me a gift as a sign of his gratitude and he always likes my profile pic updates on Facebook ... I bumped into him the other day and we had a quick chat... good guy!"

"....we had such a good time at that party that we became friented . I later found out that she worked at a really cool place. So I messaged her my resume and that's how I got my internship!!!"
by Nicky_L June 2, 2017
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frientance

A frientance is someone who is more than an acquaintance but not yet a friend.
Someone you know fairly well but yo don't consider a friend.
More than an acquaintance.
I have a frientance who likes to edit online articles.
by Divine Goddess June 9, 2010
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Friendmance

1. A cute relationship you have with a friend.

2. Friends who make each other happy.

3. Friends that act like homosexual lovers but are straight.
"Me and Abby have the best friendmance."
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frentence

a frentence is a french sentence.
"can you give me a few frentences?"

or a anglaitence is a franglais frentence
"Qu'est-ce que ca veut dire?"
"Je me manque de toi"

or,
"qu'est-ce que that mean?"
"je manques you."
"i wish you would femme les bouche!"
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Friendmance

instead of a "bromance", between two boys, it's a "friendmance" between two girls.
Katy and Janice are best friends, they have this friendmance thing going on.
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Friendance

slightly more than an acquaintance but not yet at friend status
1. Jill wanted to invite Bobby over her house to study, but she wasn't quite sure if they were past the friendance stage.
2. Al asked Bobby if Jill was his friend. "No," Bobby said, disgusted, "She's just a friendance."
by airous13 May 5, 2009
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frinstance

Comedic exaggeration of north Jersey / New York pronunciation of "for instance"
Frinstance, I can do this, frinstance, I can do that
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