Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The condition of being intimate.
- n. An instance of being intimate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being intimate; close union or conjunction.
- n. Close familiarity or fellowship; intimate friendship.
- n. Synonyms Familiarity, etc. See acquaintance.
Wiktionary
- n. feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
- n. a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
- n. close or warm friendship
Examples
“We cannot understand each other, except in a rough and ready way; we cannot reveal ourselves, even when we want to; what we call intimacy is only a makeshift; perfect knowledge is an illusion.”
“In an effort to allay their anxieties, these spouses establish a regime of control in which intimacy is confused with surveillance.”
“As couples age, being able to have frank, gentle and non-blaming discussions about sexual intimacy is often the key to maintaining a satisfying sex life.”
“Dr. Ornich advises, "Anything that can create a sense of intimacy is healing; whether it is making love, whether it is by expressing love in other ways, anything that can enhance intimacy is healing.”
The Huffington Post: Lisa Firestone: How to Fight Breast Cancer's Hidden Enemy
“It is important to maintain intimacy and actively go against what your critical inner voice is telling you.”
The Huffington Post: Lisa Firestone: How to Fight Breast Cancer's Hidden Enemy
“There was a certain intimacy present in that small a group that may have been lacking with more participants.”
“There's a certain intimacy to a concert of a music director and his orchestra, without a soloist present.”
The Washington Post: Eschenbach, Mozart, Mahler and the NSO -- getting along famously
“Despite the anonymity of most modern travel, or maybe because of it, intimacy is a persistent idea in hospitality.”
“We are offered up the portrait of a couple who don't confuse long-term love with short-term intimacy, even if they take advantage of grazing outside of their marriage fairly infrequently.”
The Huffington Post: Mark Olmsted: Beyond Labels: What Comes After Marriage Equality
“The experience of being foreign and the need for connection both mark Lahiri's outstanding debut collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, in which intimacy is often the odd consequences of her character's admitting how distant they have become, or always were.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘intimacy’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Psychology
stockholm syndrome, stereotype, ergonomics, human-computer in..., prejudice, neo-luddism, stress, trauma, psychopathology, psychotic, neurosis, depression and 180 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Words of seduction
nibble, caress, writhing, whisper, penetrate, lick, flushed, passionate, embrace, nudity, intimacy, tempt and 17 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Words from "Pearls Before Breakfast"
nondescript, shrewd, seed money, bureaucrat, indeterminate, fungible, cupidity, banal, grandeur, utilitarian, buffer, ecstatic and 123 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Relationship
enough, intimacy, invisibility, revolving, silent, spooky, galore
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sexual feelings
words describing the sexual parts of life
snog, shag, copulate, intercourse, paraphilia, carnal, fetish, fornicate, abstinence, foreplay, coitus, chastity and 119 more...
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Learned words
Words which are highly likely to be found in the work of learned writers.
ailurophile, labyrinthine, lagniappe, colleague, anechoic, reglets, fluctuations, scalar, implicit, constitute, mortification, ambassadors and 629 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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Theme Prompts
There's a fiction meme (mostly on Livejournal) where writers use words as a prompt for a short story snippet. I've been collecting the words that show up on these lists as prompts for creative writ...
white, black, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, queen, king, prince and 407 more...
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18th century british
from Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's School for Scandal ...
intimacy, piety, partiality, sentimental, plasters, mawkish, drab, spurious, sententious, bitters, folly, virtue and 132 more...
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Basically, I love you<3
All the words that i think represent love.
sex, love, hug, friendship, marriage, affection, faithful, heart, passion, admiration, couple, trust and 2 more...
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Inspiration Collection
piece of cake, firewater, sweetbrier, artesian, artisan, plenty, figurehead, incendiary, vignette, few, minimalism, NO and 40 more...
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Me.
words I love.words that describe me or what I do.Art.. . etc.
obscure, enigma, lovelorn, wanderlust, melancholy, nostalgic, dream, conscience, intimacy, embrace, tantalize, euphoria and 6 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for intimacy.
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