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Synonyms for intimacy
ˈɪn tə mə siin·ti·ma·cy

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. intimacy

    Acquaintance between persons supposes that each knows the other; we may know a public man by his writings or speeches, and by sight, but can not claim acquaintance unless he personally knows us. There may be pleasant acquaintance with little companionship; and conversely, much companionship with little acquaintance, as between busy clerks at adjoining desks. So there may be association in business without intimacy or friendship. Acquaintance admits of many degrees, from a slight or passing to a familiar or intimate acquaintance; but acquaintance unmodified commonly signifies less than familiarity or intimacy. As regards persons, familiarity is becoming restricted to the undesirable sense, as in the proverb, "Familiarity breeds contempt;" hence, in personal relations, the word intimacy, which refers to mutual knowledge of thought and feeling, is now uniformly preferred. Friendship includes acquaintance with some degree of intimacy, and ordinarily companionship, though in a wider sense friendship may exist between those who have never met, but know each other only by word and deed. Acquaintance does not involve friendship, for one may be well acquainted with an enemy. Fellowship involves not merely acquaintance and companionship, but sympathy as well. There may be much friendship without much fellowship, as between those whose homes or pursuits are far apart. There may be pleasant fellowship which does not reach the fulness of friendship. Compare ATTACHMENT; FRIENDSHIP; LOVE. As regards studies, pursuits, etc., acquaintance is less than familiarity, which supposes minute knowledge of particulars, arising often from long experience or association.

    Synonyms:
    acquaintance, association, companionship, experience, familiarity, fellowship, friendship, knowledge

    Antonyms:
    ignorance, ignoring, inexperience, unfamiliarity

    Preposition:
    Acquaintance with a subject; of one person with another; between persons.

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. familiarity, intimacy, closenessnoun

    close or warm friendship

    "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"

    Synonyms:
    conversance, affaire, conversancy, parsimoniousness, amour, impropriety, casualness, meanness, liberty, niggardliness, liaison, closeness, nearness, affair, involvement, acquaintance, familiarity, tightfistedness, secretiveness, minginess, stuffiness, tightness, indecorum, niggardness, parsimony

  2. affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amournoun

    a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship

    Synonyms:
    affaire, social function, engagement, amour, involution, participation, function, matter, affair, inter-group communication, liaison, thing, occasion, involvement, familiarity, social occasion, link, closeness, contact, interest

  3. closeness, intimacynoun

    a feeling of being intimate and belonging together

    "their closeness grew as the night wore on"

    Synonyms:
    affaire, nearness, parsimoniousness, amour, stuffiness, affair, niggardliness, liaison, closeness, tightfistedness, involvement, familiarity, secretiveness, minginess, tightness, meanness, niggardness, parsimony

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. intimacynoun

    Synonyms:
    familiarity, fellowship, friendship, close acquaintance

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "intimacy":

    privacy, closeness

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How to use intimacy in a sentence?

  1. Mark Zuckerberg:

    As the world gets bigger and more connected, we need that sense of intimacy more than ever. That's why I believe that the future is private. This is the next chapter for our services.

  2. Courteney Cox:

    I think that we were such good friends, we found ourselves leading separate lives and just coexisting and being great friends, but not having the intimacy that … is so important in a relationship. I think you really need to work in a relationship, and I think we tried.

  3. Lisa Haisha:

    We want intimacy with others. In fact, we might crave it. But since we’ve never fully experienced bonds of trust, we don’t allow intimacy into our lives. So we keep it at bay.

  4. Phoebe Dynevor:

    It's crazy to me that( an intimacy coordinator) hasn't been there in the past, i've done sex scenes before that I can't believe I did : it was only five or six years ago, but it would not be allowed now.

  5. Lee Gettler:

    All of the subjects in this study were living together, so there are many day-to-day dynamics related to social support, intimacy, psychosocial stress and relationship quality that could impact both partners and, likely, men’s biology.


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