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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

intimacy

/in-tuh-muh-see/US // ˈɪn tə mə si //UK // (ˈɪntɪməsɪ) //

亲密关系,亲情,亲密性,密切关系

Related Words

confidence信心,信任,信念,信赖familiarity熟悉程度,熟悉度,熟悉,熟悉情况understanding理解,了解,理解力,了解情况friendship友谊,友情,交情,友好affection情感,爱心,情爱,情义confidentiality保密性,保密,保密问题,保密原则affinity亲和力,亲和性,亲缘关系,亲和acquaintance认识的人,熟人,熟悉的人,相识experience经验,体验,阅历,经历communion圣餐,圣餐会,共融,圣餐仪式inwardness内向性,内向型,内向,内向度

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural in·ti·ma·cies.

    • : the state of being intimate.
    • : a close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group.
    • : a close association with or detailed knowledge or deep understanding of a place, subject, period of history, etc.: an intimacy with Japan.
    • : an act or expression serving as a token of familiarity, affection, or the like: to allow the intimacy of using first names.
    • : an amorously familiar act; liberty.
    • : sexual intercourse.
    • : the quality of being comfortable, warm, or familiar: the intimacy of the room.
    • : privacy, especially as suitable to the telling of a secret: in the intimacy of his studio.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouncloseness between people
Synonyms
affection情感,爱心,情爱,情义confidence信心,信任,信念,信赖confidentiality保密性,保密,保密问题,保密原则familiarity熟悉程度,熟悉度,熟悉,熟悉情况friendship友谊,友情,交情,友好understanding理解,了解,理解力,了解情况acquaintance认识的人,熟人,熟悉的人,相识affinity亲和力,亲和性,亲缘关系,亲和communion圣餐,圣餐会,共融,圣餐仪式experience经验,体验,阅历,经历inwardness内向性,内向型,内向,内向度close relationship关系密切,密切的关系,密切关系,密切联系

Examples

  • It’s a small enough group that a lot of intimacy can go on during the performance, and a large enough group that you can make a lot of sound and do a lot of different things.

  • The intimacy of voice makes audio social media that much more appealing in the age of social distancing and isolation.

  • So, as I was writing, rather than keeping a specific person or prototype in my mind, I tried to imagine if I could gather a group of Americans in my living room, and I wanted to replicate that sensation of intimacy and closeness in my poem.

  • This move by PepsiCo will not only reduce costs but will also enable PepsiCo to develop more significant customer intimacy and hold more customer data.

  • The pictures were not pornographic, but we were embracing in them in a way that implied intimacy and would be uncomfortable trying to explain to my husband.

  • Miller realized he had a partner, another life, and, despite the intimacy she thought they had built, he was just another client.

  • It brings out the distance and doubt that festered within the proximate intimacy of the Marston family.

  • One of the suits against Kelley charged her with defamation for calling Miller an “intimacy stalker” in her LiveJournal page.

  • It is an advertising campaign, selling Dior and selling her, bathed in the false glow of intimacy.

  • But the Beyoncé stage pictures are a ruse: they have an air of intimacy while telling us nothing of substance at all.

  • There seemed the flavour of some strange authority in her that baffled all approach to the former intimacy.

  • The two enjoyed a mutual understanding from which he was excluded, a private intimacy that was spiritual, mental,— physical.

  • The remaining four tribes appear already to be united in firm friendship and intimacy with them.

  • This intimacy arose partly from association while fishing for Cod, which abound in these waters, and partly from trading in furs.

  • If your intimacy will allow it, speak of the fault upon another occasion, kindly and privately, or let it pass.

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