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

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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 WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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

Matched Categories

1. • Belonging
   • Friendliness
   • Sexual Relationship

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. intimacynoun

   Synonyms:
   familiarity, fellowship, friendship, close acquaintance

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "intimacy":

   privacy, closeness

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1. David Ryan Polgar:

   Many physical relationships and friendships are first started online before they move offline. In other words, online, we are constantly talking to strangers, it is easy to feel a false sense of intimacy through online relationships. It is important to 'trust but verify,' and have a healthy level of caution both in one's interactions online and in the physical realm.

2. Jay Shetty:

   We equate distance with disrespect and we can sometimes respect someone more from the distance than you did in the intimacy because you weren't able to look beyond the parts of them that you couldn't deal with when you were close to them, but now that you're far from them, you can actually look over those places and amplify the good you do see in them.

3. Rob Lowe:

   It would be many years until I did, but that was always my fear, that I would end up alone. Intimacy and I were not very well acquainted until very late in my life.

4. Sarit Golub:

   What PrEP is able to do is separate the act of prevention of HIV from the act of sexual intimacy, and to me, I think that is one of the tremendous powers of PrEP for individuals and for us as a broader community.

5. Robert Sternberg:

   Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.