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intimacy
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As a noun, intimacy means feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality.
Meanings of intimacy
6 meaningsnoun
Feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality.
Intimate relationship.
especially pluralIntimate detail, (item of) intimate information.
Close or warm friendship
“the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy”
Similar: familiarity, closenessA usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
Similar: affair, affaire, liaison, involvement, amourA feeling of being intimate and belonging togetherfeeling
“their closeness grew as the night wore on”
Similar: closeness
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).