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intimacy
[ in-tuh-muh-see ]
noun
- the state of being intimate.
- a close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group.
Synonyms: closeness, affection, warmth, familiarity
- a close association with or detailed knowledge or deep understanding of a place, subject, period of history, etc.:
an intimacy with Japan.
- an act or expression serving as a token of familiarity, affection, or the like:
to allow the intimacy of using first names.
- an amorously familiar act; liberty.
- sexual intercourse.
- the quality of being comfortable, warm, or familiar:
the intimacy of the room.
- privacy, especially as suitable to the telling of a secret:
in the intimacy of his studio.
intimacy
/ ˈɪntɪməsɪ /
noun
- close or warm friendship or understanding; personal relationship
- euphemistic.often plural sexual relations
Word History and Origins
Origin of intimacy1
Example Sentences
It’s a small enough group that a lot of intimacy can go on during the performance, and a large enough group that you can make a lot of sound and do a lot of different things.
The intimacy of voice makes audio social media that much more appealing in the age of social distancing and isolation.
So, as I was writing, rather than keeping a specific person or prototype in my mind, I tried to imagine if I could gather a group of Americans in my living room, and I wanted to replicate that sensation of intimacy and closeness in my poem.
This move by PepsiCo will not only reduce costs but will also enable PepsiCo to develop more significant customer intimacy and hold more customer data.
The pictures were not pornographic, but we were embracing in them in a way that implied intimacy and would be uncomfortable trying to explain to my husband.
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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