Antonyms 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.

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, ignoring, inexperience, unfamiliarity

   Synonyms:
   acquaintance, association, companionship, experience, familiarity, fellowship, friendship, knowledge

   Preposition:
   Acquaintance with a subject; of one person with another; between persons.

Matched Categories

1. • Belonging
   • Friendliness
   • Sexual Relationship

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms: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

How to use intimacy in a sentence?

1. Lucy Flores:

   You don't expect that kind of intimacy from someone so powerful and someone who you just have no relationship whatsoever to touch you and to feel you and to be so close to you in that way, so I frankly just didn't even know how to react. I was just shocked. I felt powerless. I felt like I couldn't move. I just didn't even know how to process it.

2. Las Vegas-based stripper:

   I think Las Vegas-based's very hard for people to combine intimacy and money.

3. Anita Clayton:

   So often we’re not in the moment—we’re above it or outside of it looking in and thinking, ‘Oh God, I look so unattractive,’ it changes that emotional intimacy that’s part of experiencing pleasure with a partner.

4. Kathleen Turner:

   Yes, yuck. He has this gross handshake, he goes to shake your hand and with his index finger kind of rubs the inside of your wrist. He’s trying to do some kind of seductive intimacy move. You pull your hand away and goyuck.

5. Ryusuke Hamaguchi:

   What I found fascinating was how the intimacy is brought into the car through the long conversations between the characters.

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