'Intimacy' definitions:
Definition of 'intimacy'
(from WordNet)
noun
Close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" [syn: familiarity, intimacy, closeness]
noun
A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship [syn: affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour]
noun
A feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on" [syn: closeness, intimacy]
Definition of 'Intimacy'
From: GCIDE
- Intimacy \In"ti*ma*cy\, n.; pl. Intimacies. [From Intimate.] The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.
- Syn: Acquaintance; familiarity; fellowship; friendship. See Acquaintance. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'intimacy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accord,
- acquaintance,
- act of love,
- addition,
- adjunct,
- adultery,
- affability,
- affairs,
- affiliation,
- affinity,
- alliance,
- amiability,
- aphrodisia,
- approximation,
- ass,
- assemblage,
- association,
- balling,
- bond,
- carnal knowledge,
- chumminess,
- civility,
- climax,
- closeness,
- clubbability,
- clubbishness,
- clubbism,
- cohabitation,
- coition,
- coitus,
- coitus interruptus,
- combination,
- commerce,
- communicativeness,
- companionability,
- compatibility,
- congeniality,
- congress,
- connectedness,
- connection,
- contiguity,
- contrariety,
- copula,
- copulation,
- corpus,
- coupling,
- courtesy,
- data,
- datum,
- dealings,
- deduction,
- diddling,
- disjunction,
- experience,
- expertise,
- facts,
- factual base,
- familiarity,
- filiation,
- fondness for society,
- fornication,
- friendliness,
- geniality,
- gregariousness,
- homology,
- hospitality,
- information,
- inseparableness,
- intelligence,
- intercourse,
- intimate acquaintance,
- inwardness,
- junction,
- ken,
- know-how,
- knowing,
- knowledge,
- liaison,
- link,
- linkage,
- linking,
- lovemaking,
- making it with,
- marital relations,
- marriage act,
- mateyness,
- mating,
- meat,
- mutual attraction,
- nearness,
- onanism,
- orgasm,
- ovum,
- palliness,
- pareunia,
- practical knowledge,
- private knowledge,
- privity,
- procreation,
- propinquity,
- proximity,
- rapport,
- ratio cognoscendi,
- relatedness,
- relation,
- relations,
- relationship,
- screwing,
- self-knowledge,
- sex,
- sex act,
- sexual climax,
- sexual commerce,
- sexual congress,
- sexual intercourse,
- sexual relations,
- sexual union,
- similarity,
- sleeping with,
- sociability,
- sociableness,
- social grace,
- sociality,
- special affinity,
- sperm,
- sympathy,
- technic,
- technics,
- technique,
- tie,
- tie-in,
- union,
- urbanity,
- venery