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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intimacy
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ The period of the two painters' great intimacy and of their unique collaboration was about to begin.
▪ This combination of higher self-esteem and greater safety created a powerful impetus toward greater intimacy.
physical
▪ Sometimes there is promiscuity, when a woman confuses physical intimacy with emotional commitment.
▪ The physical and emotional intimacy of adult sexuality in marriage recreates aspects of our early, and often unremembered, pasts.
▪ You enjoy physical intimacy and affectionate contact as much as women do.
■ VERB
create
▪ But the particularity, as Shakespeare formulates it, also creates intimacy.
▪ Actually, it creates different kinds of intimacy.
▪ These large strong skies create an intimacy in the landscape which is an essential lakeland characteristic.
▪ Instead of controlling my children, I tried to create an intimacy with them.
▪ For approaching the jury, she recommends walking slowly in a curving path to create intimacy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Intimacy took place on several occasions.
▪ Building houses far apart reduces intimacy among neighbors.
▪ the whispered intimacies of lovers
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intimacy

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intimacy

1640s, from intimate + -cy. As a euphemism for "sexual intercourse," from 1670s.

Wiktionary
intimacy

n. feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality

WordNet
intimacy
  1. n. close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" [syn: familiarity, closeness]

  2. a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship [syn: affair, affaire, liaison, involvement, amour]

  3. a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on" [syn: closeness]

Wikipedia
Intimacy (film)

Intimacy is a 2001 British film directed by Patrice Chéreau, starring Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox.

Intimacy is an international co-production among production companies in France, the U.K., Germany, and Spain featuring a soundtrack of pop songs from the 1970s and 1980s. It was written by Chéreau with Anne-Louise Trividic, based on stories by Hanif Kureishi (who also wrote a novel of the same title). This mainstream-defined film contains an unsimulated fellatio scene by Fox on Rylance. A French- dubbed version features voice actors Jean-Hugues Anglade and Nathalie Richard.

The film has been associated with the New French Extremity.

Intimacy (Jody Watley album)

Intimacy is the fourth studio album by American pop singer Jody Watley, released in 1993 (see 1993 in music) on MCA.

Intimacy (novel)

Intimacy was published in 1998 by Hanif Kureishi. The novel deals with a middle-aged man and his thoughts about leaving his wife and two young sons.

Intimacy (Matt Redman album)

Intimacy is an album by worship artist Matt Redman. It was released in the US as The Heart of Worship with a very similar cover.

The album was recorded at various locations

  • Shine Studios, London, England - (Engineer Trevor Michael)
  • ICC Studios, Eastbourne, England - (Engineer Trevor Michael)
  • Warehouse Studio, Oxford, England - (Engineer Steve Watkins)
  • The Matinee, Nashville, Tennessee - (Engineer Matt Huesmann) for the Gospel Choir
  • Northwind Studio, Natal - (Engineer Nick Fairclogh) for the Zulu Choir
Intimacy (Bruce Roberts album)

Intimacy is an album released by Bruce Roberts in 1995. It featured musical and vocal contributions by many notable artists.

Intimacy (disambiguation)

Intimacy refers to an intimate relationship between two people or among three or more people.

Intimacy may also refer to:

  • Physical intimacy, physical aspects of an intimate relationship
  • Emotional intimacy, emotional aspects of an intimate relationship
Intimacy (Bloc Party album)

Intimacy is the third studio album by British indie rock band Bloc Party. It was recorded in two weeks at several locations in London and Kent during 2008 and was produced by Jacknife Lee and Paul Epworth. Inspired by the release options available in the Internet age, the band members made the album available for purchase on their website as a digital download on 21 August 2008. Minimal promotion was undertaken in the UK. The record was released in compact disc form on 24 October 2008, with Wichita Recordings as the primary label. It peaked at number 8 on the UK Albums Chart and entered the Billboard 200 in the United States at number 18.

Bloc Party wanted to create an album that further distanced the band from the traditional rock set-up by incorporating more electronic elements and unconventional musical arrangements. As the record's title suggests, its tracks are about personal relationships and are loosely based on one of frontman Kele Okereke's break-ups in 2007. Three songs were released as singles: " Mercury", " Talons", and " One Month Off"; the first two tracks entered the UK Top 40. Intimacy was generally well received by critics. Reviewers often focused on its rush-release and central theme, and considered them either bold steps or poor choices.

Usage examples of "intimacy".

And then, unable to bear the close intimacy of the two of them leaning together over their food, he swung his legs off the low New Amazonian bed and levered himself to his feet.

It would be useless to tell of his summers in Argyllshire and among the inner isles, his intimacy with fishermen who were as elemental as his own dreams of old time.

Lady Bathurst, or, as I call her in the intimacy of her chamber, Violet.

Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk The bees sustained flight, its powerful sting, its intimacy with flowers and avoidance of all unwholesome things, the attachment of the workers to the queen - regarded throughout antiquity as the king - its singular swarming habits and its astonishing industry in collecting and storing honey and skill in making wax.

Her words betrayed her intimacy with the Dakotan leader, and too much scrutiny of Seneca.

The voices of these desert beasts brought home to Domini with an intimacy not felt by her before the exquisite remoteness of their situation, and the shrill, discordant noise, rising and falling with a sort of melancholy and sneering mirth, mingled with bitterness, was like a delicate music in her ears.

With the view of doing this she had sought the intimacy of Miss Dunstable, and for the last year past had indulged every caprice of that lady.

Miss Dunstable had known him at Greshamsbury, where he lived, and there had for some months past grown up a considerable intimacy between them.

The sounds of the night creatures outside the cabin added to the feeling of greater intimacy, for they seemed encapsulated within the cabin, totally cut off from the rest of the world.

The rear-admiral bowed frostily as he was casually introduced, resenting the intimacy that had invaded his clinical, sterile control room.

Their handclasp held, and their mutual knowledge of her longtime regard for him lent the moment an intimacy that was present whenever they met.

He left us a boy, and now he is really a man, and he regards Herm with the sort of intimacy you have never had with him.

Anne sprang back to life, following on his heels, chattering mindlessly, doing everything she could possibly think of to shatter this sudden intimacy between her sister and this dashing rake that seemed to be growing before her very eyes.

Next morning, when the two women kissed each other with heartfelt kindness, and that look of intelligence which marks a real advance in friendship, a closer intimacy between two souls, they heard the sound of horsehoofs, and, turning both together, saw the young Englishman ride slowly past the window, after his wont.

It was an intimacy unequaled by anything save sexual concourse, and that she had denied herself in order to grasp at the future.