Intimacy
['ɪntɪməsɪ] or ['ɪntɪməsi]
Definition
(n.) The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Familiarity, fellowship, friendship, close acquaintance.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
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Examples
- I do assure you that my intimacy has not yet taught me _that_. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Was not this intimacy with the prisoner, in reality a very slight one, forced upon the prisoner in coaches, inns, and packets? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It was strange how inviolable was the intimacy which existed between him and Hermione. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She turned with a pleasant intimacy to Ursula. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- An old philosophical friend of mine was grown, from experience, very cautious in this particular, and carefully avoided any intimacy with such people. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And this intimacy humanizes religious controversy and brings ecclesiasticism back to men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Robert Jordan asked in the intimacy of the dark and of their day together. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And was not Ursula's way of emotional intimacy, emotional and physical, was it not just as dangerous as Hermione's abstract spiritual intimacy? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Acquaintance, intimacy, friendship, fast followed on each other. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- What intimacy ever existed between you and me, pray, beyond that of common acquaintance? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Oh, I don't defend her intimacy with the Gormers; but that too is at an end now, I think. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- A _Mrs._ _Elton_ would be an excuse for any change of intercourse; former intimacy might sink without remark. Jane Austen. Emma.
- No soft sense of domestic intimacy ever opened our hearts, or thawed our language and made it flow easy and limpid. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There was intimacy between them, and Mr. Cole had heard from Mr. Elton since his going away. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He hoped her intimacy with Miss Keeldar would continue; such society would be both pleasant and improving. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Sir Thomas, drawing back from intimacies in general, was particularly disinclined, at this time, for any engagements but in one quarter. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She had various intimacies of mind and soul with various men of capacity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She wanted unspeakable intimacies. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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