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Definition: Intimacy |
IntimacyNoun1. Close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy". 2. A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship. 3. A feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "intimacy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Intimacy \In"ti*ma*cy\, noun; plural Intimacies. [From Intimate.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. Two Seidlitz powders, one in blue And one in white, together drew And having each a pleasant sense Of t'other powder's excellence, Forsook their jackets for the snug Enjoyment of a common mug. So close their intimacy grew One paper would have held the two. To confidences straight they fell, Less anxious each to hear than tell; Then each remorsefully confessed To all the virtues he possessed, Acknowledging he had them in So high degree it was a sin. The more they said, the more they felt Their spirits with emotion melt, Till tears of sentiment expressed Their feelings. Then they effervesced! So Nature executes her feats Of wrath on friends and sympathetes The good old rule who don't apply, That you are you and I am I. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Intimacy is the basis of friendship and one of the bases of love. It may take several forms.The main ones are emotional intimacy and physical intimacy.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Intimacy."
Synonyms: IntimacySynonyms: affair (n), affaire (n), amour (n), closeness (n), familiarity (n), involvement (n), liaison (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Friendship | Acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, intercourse, fellowship, knowledge of; introduction. |
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Crosswords: Intimacy |
| English words defined with "intimacy": aphrodisia, arm's length ♦ closeness, concupiscence, confidential, Consociation ♦ familiarity ♦ Gossipry ♦ impropriety, incestuous, indecorum, Intimacies ♦ liberty ♦ physical attraction ♦ sexual desire, sexual relationship, sugar daddy ♦ To take acquaintance of. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "intimacy": intrusion into privacy ♦ violation of privacy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But we're being constrained by the intimacy of our situation (Ed, Edd n' Eddy; writing credit: Jan Dirchsen; Mikkel Dyrting) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Intimacy (1966) Random Acts of Intimacy (2002) Intimacy (2000) Toward Intimacy (1992) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edgar Quinet | It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion. |
Horace | Those unacquainted with the world take pleasures in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Between them it was more the intimacy of sisters |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | A man burdened with a secret should especially avoid the intimacy of his physician |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was aversion compelled to intimacy. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These infections are also spread by sexual intimacy. (references) | |
You may discover, however, that intimacy changes during treatment. (references) | ||
Some may worry that physical intimacy will harm the person who has cancer. (references) | ||
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | We must understand that ties of trade bind nations in closest intimacy, and none may receive except as he gives. |
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| "Intimacy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.82% of the time. "Intimacy" is used about 567 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.82% | 566 | 11,110 |
| Noun (common) | 0.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 567 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "intimacy": enjoy intimacy. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "intimacy": pseudo-intimacy. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "intimacy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | miqësi e ngushtë (fraternization), familjaritet (nepotism). (various references) | |
Arabic | مودة (attachment, bonhomie, cordiality, endearment, fellowship, friendship, love, nearness), علاقة جنسية (amour), صداقة حميمة (camaraderie, nearness), ألفة (domesticity, familiarity). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | основни познания, незаконни полови отношения, задушевност (intimity), интимност (familiarity, informality, intimity, inwardness, nearness, privacy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 亲热 (Intimacies). (various references) | |
Czech | intimnost, intimita (intimity), dùvìrnost (closeness, confidence, familiarity, privacy). (various references) | |
Farsi | صمیمیت (Confidence, Devotion, Sincerity), خصوصیت (Quality), رابطه نامشروع جنسی . (various references) | |
Finnish | ystävyys (close friendship, friendship), tuttavuus (acquaintance), tuttavallisuus (familiarity), likeisyys. (various references) | |
French | intimité, rapports intimes. (various references) | |
German | intimität (familiarity), innigkeit (ardency, closeness, depth, intenseness, intensity, sincerity, warmth). (various references) | |
Greek | στενή σχέση, οικειότητα (familiarity, habitude, intimateness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משפחתיות (familiarity), יחסי מין (intercourse, sexual intercourse), י"י"ות עמוק", אי טימיות, סו"יות (privacy, secrecy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | meghittség (cosiness, coziness, familiarity). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kekariban (chumnuness), keakraban (familiarity, solidarity). (various references) | |
Italian | intimit (deep, hearth, innermost, intimate friends, nearness, privacy), confidenza (assurance, confidence, secret, trust). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 懇意 (friendship, kindness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふかま (depths), じゅ"" (putting one's heart and soul into), じゅっ"" (putting one's heart and soul into), じっ"" (familiarity, putting one's heart and soul into), よしみ (connection, favor, friendly relations, friendship, goodwill, kindness, relation), ""い (friendship, kindness), ""し" (cross talk, friendship, interference, jamming, with all one's might, with one's whole body), "うじょう (advancement, bank of a large river, code of morals, colloid, compromise, concession, constancy, elevation, factory, favour, friendship, hospitality, improvement, kindness, mill, moral principles, plant, progress, rise, ruined castle, siege, speech, vocal message, workshop), じょう"う (article, clause, getting on and off, going upstream, retired emperor, sexual intercourse, stipulations, upturn), にゅう"" (putting one's heart and soul into), ぎ (affair, be suspicious of, case, ceremony, connection, deception, deed, distrust, doubt, false, falsehood, favor, friendly relations, friendship, goodwill, honour, imitation, justice, kindness, lie, matter, morality, relation, righteousness, rule, skill), べっ"", し"みつ (friendship), し"あい (beloved, dear, deep affection, love and believe in), し""う (advance, attack, belief, benevolence, close friendship, creed, dead of night, deep crimson, deep plowing, developing, emergent, encouragement, faith, friendship, giving a lecture in the Emperor's presence, good fellowship, invasion, lecturing to the emperor, middle of the night, midnight, paying tribute, pickled vegetables, pickles, promotion, rising, sailing on, sincere), なじ, なじみ (friend), なかよし (a close friend, bosom buddy, chum, intimate friend), したしみ (affection, familiarity), い"ぎ" (courtesy, friendship). (various references) | |
Korean | 친밀 (Closeness, Familiarities, Familiarity, Intimacies). (various references) | |
Manx | ehlley (affection, fondness), cumraagys (association, comradeship, familiarity), caarjys (blood relationship, cordiality, friendship), ainjys (acquaintance, familiarity). (various references) | |
Norwegian | fortrolighet (familiarity). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | intimacyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | intimidade (familiarity, intimity, inwardness, nearness, privacy), relações sexuais (connection, intercourse, sexual intercourse), relações íntimas (carnal access, carnal knowledge), ato íntimo, amizade íntima. (various references) | |
Romanian | intimitate (closeness, familiarity, intimity, privacy, secrets), relaţii intime, raporturi sexuale, prietenie strânsã, apropriere (appropriation, intimity). (various references) | |
Russian | тесная связь (entwinement), интимность (intimity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | intimnost (intimity), prisnost (familiarity, intimity, nearness, rapport). (various references) | |
Spanish | intimidad (closeness, familiarity, informality, intimity, nearness, privacy). (various references) | |
Swedish | intimitet (intimity), förtrolighet (familiarity). (various references) | |
Turkish | yakınlık (adjacency, affinity, approximation, closeness, connection, connexion, contiguity, familiarity, immediacy, imminence, kinship, nearness, propinquity, proximity, relationship, terms), samimiyet (bona fides, camaraderie, candor, candour, cordiality, earnestness, familiarity, frankness, friendliness, heartiness, outspokennes, sincereness, sincerity, terms, unaffectedness, warmth), sıkı dostluk, cinsel ilişki (act, carnal knowledge, commerce, it, screw, sex, sexual act, sexual intercourse, shot, snatch, trick). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яьrekdeюlik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | інтимність (intimity, privacy), близкість (affinity, association, kinship). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thân tình, sự thân mật (amicability, amicableness, chumminess, cordiality, friendliness, heartiness), sự thông dâm sự riêng biệt, sự riêng tư, sự quen thuộc sự chung chăn chung gối, sự quen thân, sự mật thiết, sự gian dâm (fornication). (various references) | |
Welsh | agosatrwydd. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | consuetudine, consuetudinem, consuetudines, consuetudinis, consuetudo, convictus, familiaritas, propinquitas. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Intimacy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Antonacci, intamacy, intiamcy, intimancy, itimacy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "intimacy" (pronounced i"ntumusē) |
| 6 | -t u m u s ē | illegitimacy, legitimacy. |
| 4 | -m u s ē | diplomacy, pharmacy, primacy, supremacy. |
| 3 | -u s ē | accuracy, adequacy, advocacy, Argosy, aristocracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, candidacy, celibacy, confederacy, conspiracy, courtesy, degeneracy, delicacy, democracy, jealousy, legacy, ecstasy, embassy, fallacy, fantasy, Geodesy, heresy, hypocrisy, idiocy, illiteracy, immediacy, inaccuracy, inadequacy, intricacy, leprosy, literacy, lunacy, meritocracy, obstinacy, Odyssey, papacy, piracy, pleurisy, policy, privacy, prophecy, secrecy, surrogacy, theocracy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: minacity. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-m-n-t-y" | |
-1 letter: aminity. | |
-2 letters: aminic, intima, mantic. | |
-3 letters: acini, actin, amici, amity, amnic, animi, antic, canty, manic, matin, mincy, minty. | |
-4 letters: amin, anti, ayin, cain, cant, city, cyan, cyma, inia, inti, main, many, mica, mina, mini, mint, mity, myna, tain, tiny, tyin. | |
-5 letters: act, aim, ain, ait, ami, ani, ant, any, cam, can, cat, cay, icy, mac. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-m-n-t-y" | |
+1 letter: antimycin, dynamitic, militancy. | |
+2 letters: antimycins, dynamistic, tympanitic. | |
+3 letters: actinomycin, criminality, masculinity. | |
+4 letters: actinomycins, amphictyonic, incompatibly, intermediacy, isoenzymatic, municipality, mutagenicity, pneumaticity. | |
+5 letters: actinomycosis, actinomycotic, amphictyonies, antisymmetric, cinematically, enigmatically, incriminatory, indeterminacy, kinematically, machinability, magnificently, metaphysician, microanalytic, microtonality, mystification, recriminatory, semitonically. | |
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