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intimacy

[ in-tuh-muh-see ]

noun

, plural in·ti·ma·cies.
  1. the state of being intimate.
  2. a close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group.

    Synonyms: closeness, affection, warmth, familiarity

  3. a close association with or detailed knowledge or deep understanding of a place, subject, period of history, etc.:

    an intimacy with Japan.

  4. an act or expression serving as a token of familiarity, affection, or the like:

    to allow the intimacy of using first names.

  5. an amorously familiar act; liberty.
  6. sexual intercourse.
  7. the quality of being comfortable, warm, or familiar:

    the intimacy of the room.

  8. privacy, especially as suitable to the telling of a secret:

    in the intimacy of his studio.



intimacy

/ ˈɪntɪməsɪ /

noun

  1. close or warm friendship or understanding; personal relationship
  2. euphemistic.
    often plural sexual relations
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of intimacy1

First recorded in 1635–45; intim(ate) 1 + -acy
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Example Sentences

Miller realized he had a partner, another life, and, despite the intimacy she thought they had built, he was just another client.

It brings out the distance and doubt that festered within the proximate intimacy of the Marston family.

One of the suits against Kelley charged her with defamation for calling Miller an “intimacy stalker” in her LiveJournal page.

It is an advertising campaign, selling Dior and selling her, bathed in the false glow of intimacy.

But the Beyoncé stage pictures are a ruse: they have an air of intimacy while telling us nothing of substance at all.

There seemed the flavour of some strange authority in her that baffled all approach to the former intimacy.

The two enjoyed a mutual understanding from which he was excluded, a private intimacy that was spiritual, mental,— physical.

The remaining four tribes appear already to be united in firm friendship and intimacy with them.

This intimacy arose partly from association while fishing for Cod, which abound in these waters, and partly from trading in furs.

If your intimacy will allow it, speak of the fault upon another occasion, kindly and privately, or let it pass.

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