Knowledge vs. Privy — What's the Difference?

Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts (descriptive knowledge), skills (procedural knowledge), or objects (acquaintance knowledge). By most accounts, knowledge can be acquired in many different ways and from many sources, including but not limited to perception, reason, memory, testimony, scientific inquiry, education, and practice.

Made a participant in knowledge of something private or secret

Facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject

Belonging or proper to a person, such as the British sovereign, in a private rather than official capacity.

Awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation

Secret; concealed.

Sexual intercourse.

An outdoor toilet; an outhouse.

The state or fact of knowing

A toilet.

Familiarity, awareness, or understanding gained through experience or study

(Law) One in privity with another.

The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.

(Archaic) Carnal knowledge.

Secret, hidden, concealed.

The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.

With knowledge of; party to; let in on.

Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.

An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).

Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.

A lavatory: a room with a toilet.

Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.

A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.

(philosophical) Justified true belief

(legal) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.

Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).

Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.

(obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice.

Secret; clandestine.

The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.

Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.

(countable) Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.

Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.

(obsolete) Acknowledgement.

A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.

(obsolete) Notice, awareness.

A necessary house or place for performing excretory functions in private; an outhouse; a backhouse.

The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.

A room equipped with toilet facilities

(obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge.

A small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate

The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.

Hidden from general view or use;

That which is or may be known; the object of an act of knowing; a cognition; - chiefly used in the plural.

(followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known;

That which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition.

That familiarity which is gained by actual experience; practical skill; as, a knowledge of life.

Scope of information; cognizance; notice; as, it has not come to my knowledge.

Sexual intercourse; - usually preceded by carnal; same as carnal knowledge.

To acknowledge.

The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning