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[ UK /ˈɪntɪməsi/ ]
[ US /ˈɪntəməsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
    their closeness grew as the night wore on
  2. close or warm friendship
    the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy
  3. a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship

How To Use intimacy In A Sentence

  • There are three degrees of intimacy between words, of which the first and loosest is expressed by their mere juxtaposition as separate words, the second by their being hyphened, and the third or closest by their being written continuously as one word. Hyphens.
  • They glimpsed each other across grocery counters and in the forced intimacy of domestic service now gone out of style.
  • The intimacy of the mobile phone creates a similarly fragmented network of communication and desire.
  • Despite some ongoing resistance (a subject to which I will return), the situation for people involved in interracial intimacy has never been better. Interracial Intimacy
  • But this intimacy is a far cry from what we knew in the bowling alley. INSIDE THE TORNADO: MARKETING STRATEGIES FROM SILICON VALLEY'S CUTTING EDGE
  • There were times when it was hard, when one or other of us would be crying out for more, be it moving in, or more often a cry for the delights of sexual intimacy.
  • Between the Macphails and the Davidsons, who were missionaries, there had arisen the intimacy of shipboard, which is due to propinquity rather than to any community of taste. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands
  • We have relearnt the old tricks of theatrical intimacy. Times, Sunday Times
  • These results suggest that stereotypes of older persons as not interested in sexual intimacy are wrong.
  • How much of your religious activity is about pursuing something other than intimacy with him? Christianity Today
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