Intimacy

//ˈɪn.tɪ.mə.si// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, often but not necessarily involving sexuality. countable, uncountable

    "To adulterous lust the most sacred duties are sacrificed, because, before marriage, men, by a promiscuous intimacy with women, learned to consider love as a selfish gratification—learned to separate it not only from esteem, but from the affection merely built on habit, which mixes a little humanity with it."

  2. 2
    close or warm friendship wordnet
  3. 3
    Intimate relationship. countable

    "1787, Robert Burns, Letter to Dr. Moore, 23 April, 1787, in J. Logie Robertson (ed.), The Letters of Robert Burns, Selected and Arranged, with an Introduction, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 57, I have formed many intimacies and friendships here, but I am afraid they are all of too tender a construction to bear carriage a hundred and fifty miles."

  4. 4
    a feeling of being intimate and belonging together wordnet
  5. 5
    Intimate detail, (item of) intimate information. countable, especially, plural

    "He recognized the tone as the one used by friendly sisters to discuss the infirmities of their husbands. It was Shama’s plea to a sister to exchange intimacies, to show support."

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  1. 6
    a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship wordnet

Etymology

From intimate + -cy.

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