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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IN'TIMACY, n. [from intimate.] Close familiarity or fellowship; nearness in friendship.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" [syn: familiarity, intimacy, closeness]
2: a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship [syn: affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour]
3: a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on" [syn: closeness, intimacy]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -cies) Date: 1641 1. the state of being intimate ; familiarity 2. something of a personal or private nature

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 the state of being intimate. 2 an intimate act, esp. sexual intercourse. 3 an intimate remark; an endearment.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Intimacy In"ti*ma*cy, n.; pl. Intimacies. [From Intimate.] The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship. Syn: Acquaintance; familiarity; fellowship; friendship. See Acquaintance.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Intimacy between two people is a very close personal relationship between them. ...a means of achieving intimacy with another person. N-UNCOUNT: oft N with/between n 2. You sometimes use intimacy to refer to sex or a sexual relationship. The truth was he did not feel like intimacy with any woman.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Familiarity, fellowship, friendship, close acquaintance. 2. Intimate character, nearness, closeness.

Moby Thesaurus

accord, acquaintance, act of love, addition, adjunct, adultery, affability, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alliance, amiability, aphrodisia, approximation, ass, assemblage, association, balling, bond, carnal knowledge, chumminess, civility, climax, closeness, clubbability, clubbishness, clubbism, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, combination, commerce, communicativeness, companionability, compatibility, congeniality, congress, connectedness, connection, contiguity, contrariety, copula, copulation, corpus, coupling, courtesy, data, datum, dealings, deduction, diddling, disjunction, experience, expertise, facts, factual base, familiarity, filiation, fondness for society, fornication, friendliness, geniality, gregariousness, homology, hospitality, information, inseparableness, intelligence, intercourse, intimate acquaintance, inwardness, junction, ken, know-how, knowing, knowledge, liaison, link, linkage, linking, lovemaking, making it with, marital relations, marriage act, mateyness, mating, meat, mutual attraction, nearness, onanism, orgasm, ovum, palliness, pareunia, practical knowledge, private knowledge, privity, procreation, propinquity, proximity, rapport, ratio cognoscendi, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, screwing, self-knowledge, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, similarity, sleeping with, sociability, sociableness, social grace, sociality, special affinity, sperm, sympathy, technic, technics, technique, tie, tie-in, union, urbanity, venery