Word Finder - intimacy

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

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Intimate relationship.

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(especially plural) Intimate detail, (item of) intimate information.

Yes, you know between cousins intimacy often leads to love.

He was educated at the university of Leiden, where he formed a close intimacy with Daniel Heinsius.

I would love to share that intimacy with you, but don't think for a minute this diminishes my feelings for you.

That level of intimacy wasn't something he ever experienced with others.

Actually, all she wanted to do was alert him that she was nervous about it, but if it made him feel better to know she was willing to discuss intimacy with him now, then she would listen.

She revealed herself in her work, and he felt an intimacy with her through her art.

It was a comfortable intimacy, though – and the first of his money she would spend on herself.

At the same time he lived on terms of intimacy with worthy men.

But this wasn't about intimacy - was it?

An old poet quoted by Suetonius states that he was ruined in fortune through his intimacy with his noble friends.

It was his way of focusing in - pulling her close without the intimacy of touching.

Although not particular in the choice of some of the associates of his pleasures, he admitted none but men of worth to his intimacy, and when once admitted they were treated like equals.

He became a monk in the Benedictine monastery of Christ Church, Canterbury, where he made the acquaintance of Anselm, at that time visiting England as abbot of Bec. The intimacy was renewed when Anselm became archbishop of Canterbury in 1093; thenceforward Eadmer was not only his disciple and follower, but his friend and director, being formally appointed to this position by Pope Urban II.

She never forgot her old friends, and, as far as is known, remained faithful to her royal lover from the beginning of their intimacy to his death, and, after his death, to his memory.

It was the intimacy of motherhood that she missed.

As a result, you have developed a sexual intimacy prior to developing an emotional, spiritual, and intellectual relationship based on shared experiences.

He was already on terms of intimacy with the leading men of letters in Scotland and England.

The unnaturally deep intimacy of the moment wasn't lost on her.

Although taken aback by such intimacy from a stranger, as well as terrified himself, he felt an overwhelming need to comfort her.

These days, she only fed on lovers when they had accepted her vampirism and wanted to share that intimacy.

They would never share that intimacy, but he would just have to accept that, sad as it was.

It had been in the back of her mind, but the babies had overridden even that degree of intimacy.

They would learn those things with or without children, but they could enjoy the intimacy of them much better when it was merely the two of them.

The way she blushed about intimacy was amusing and somehow sweet.

The intimacy was renewed; but the old enchantment was lost.

In the last year of the war she was accompanied into Guienne by the duc de Nemours, her intimacy with whom gave La Rochefoucauld an excuse for abandoning her, and who himself immediately returned to his old mistress the duchesse de Chevreuse.

After 1390 - but whilst he was still a young man - he made the acquaintance of Geoffrey Chaucer, with whose son Thomas he was on terms of considerable intimacy.

At Strassburg began his intimacy with Caspar Schwenkfeld, a congenial spirit.

With the latter he appears to have been on terms of intimacy.

Even before this, however, he had shown a strong inclination for natural science, and this had been fostered by his intimacy with a "self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician," as Sir Walter Scott called him, of great local fame - James Veitch of Inchbonny, who was particularly skilful in making telescopes.

John Knox accused the queen of undue intimacy with Beton, and a popular report of a similar nature, probably unfounded, was revived in 1543 by Sir Ralph Sadler, the English envoy.

Angilbert, however, was little like the true medieval saint; his poems reveal rather the culture and tastes of a man of the world, enjoying the closest intimacy with the imperial family.

He read considerably, wrote abundantly, thought actively if not widely, and came to know beasts, birds and fishes with an intimacy more extraordinary than was the case with St Francis of Assisi.

The intimacy of their relations could escape no one at Coppet, but the fact of the marriage (which seems to have been happy enough) was not certainly known till after her death.

A long tour in Italy in 1828 was the beginning of his intimacy with Bunsen and did much to develop his knowledge of art and love of antiquity.

This was largely due to his friendly intimacy with the majority of the Magyar notables, from among whom he chose his chief counsellors.

He was admitted into the intimacy of young men of the best families, such as Scipio, Laelius and Furius Philus; and he enjoyed the favour of older men of literary distinction and official position.

His verses to King Charles Albert, then prince of Carignano, on the birth of his son Victor Emmanuel, attracted the prince's attention and proved the beginning of a long intimacy.

From Campania Paulinus returned to his native place and came into correspondence or personal intimacy with men like Martin of Tours and Ambrose of Milan, and ultimately (about 389) he was formally received into the church by bishop Delphinus of Bordeaux, whence shortly afterwards he withdrew with his wife beyond the Pyrenees.

As for his ivory-white, it distinctly surpasses the Chinese Ming Chen-yao in every quality except an indescribable intimacy of glaze and p&e which probably can never be obtained by either Japanese or European methods.

It is in the highest degree improbable that Lucilius served in the army at the age of fourteen; it is still more unlikely that he could have been admitted into the familiar intimacy of Scipio and Laelius at that age.

This was in 1511, after the conquest of Malacca by D'Albuquerque, and the intimacy lasted over a century, the tradition of their greatness having hardly yet died out.

For instance, they had been married nearly five years, and yet she was still uncomfortable with intimacy.

It was a comfortable intimacy, though – and the first of his money she would spend on herself.

A bond of brotherly affection and patriarchal intimacy unites all its members.

With gentle guitar arpeggios and a vocal showcase for Grace, this performance was greeted with a " pin-drop " intimacy.

Within this, there are specific questions concerning ethnicity, education and employment, and intimacy.

You honor me too much in ascribing to me a degree of intimacy with Miss Fanshawe I have not the felicity to enjoy.

The illusion of intimacy also embraces the suggestion of sexual frisson between the leading actors.

Joel Lane's Against My Ruins is the tale of two people attempting intimacy as they scavenge through a post holocaust city.