intimacy

1. 1.

   close or warm friendship

   “the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy”

   Synonymsfamiliaritycloseness

   Broaderfriendliness
2. 2.

   a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship

   Synonymsaffairaffaireliaisoninvolvementamour

   Broadersexual relationship
3. 3.

   a feeling of being intimate and belonging together

   “their closeness grew as the night wore on”

   Synonymscloseness

   Broaderbelonging

   Narrowertogetherness

Other forms of intimacy

plural

intimacies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about intimacy

What does intimacy mean?

intimacy means "close or warm friendship". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in intimacy?

intimacy has 4 syllables: in-ti-ma-cy. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪntəməsi/.

What is another word for intimacy?

Close synonyms include familiarity, closeness, affair, affaire, liaison. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is intimacy a common word?

intimacy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.