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Definition of Intimacy
1. Noun. Close or warm friendship. "The absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"
2. Noun. A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship.
3. Noun. A feeling of being intimate and belonging together. "Their closeness grew as the night wore on"
Generic synonyms: Belonging
Specialized synonyms: Togetherness
Derivative terms: Close
Definition of Intimacy
1. n. The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.
Definition of Intimacy
1. Noun. feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Intimacy
1. the state of being closely associated [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intimacy
Literary usage of Intimacy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1874)
"While caressed by Wilkins, Barrow, Tillotson, and Stillingfleet, the great
ornaments of the Establishment, Hale kept up, as long as he could, his intimacy ..."
2. Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency by Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon (1901)
"He enjoyed, during the rest of his long life, intimacy with the King, distinction
at the Court, great consideration, extreme abundance, kept up the state of ..."
3. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, George Smith, Harold F. Oxbury (1885)
"His intimacy with Burns, and his genial manners, secured him a cordial welcome
in the literary circles of Edinburgh. Hogg, who speaks of him as ' honest ..."
4. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"His fifteen Whether Procopius held precisely this relation to intimacy Belisarius
during all the fifteen years that they were with the . '"' , . ..."
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