intimacy

[In·ti*ma*cy]

Intimacy is closeness with another person, like the intimacy that develops between friends as you tell one another your life stories and all your secrets and dreams for the future.

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The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.

Noun
close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"

Noun
a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on"

Noun
a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship


n.
The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.


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.

The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.

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Usage Examples

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

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Other Usage Examples

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

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