intimacy

Meanings

Plural: intimacies

Noun

• close or warm friendship
  • "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"
• a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
• a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
• Feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, often but not necessarily involving sexuality.
• Intimate relationship.
• Intimate detail, (item of) intimate information.

Synonyms

affair, affaire, amour, closeness, familiarity, involvement, liaison

Antonyms

solitude

Related Words

intimate, intimation