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Definition of Intimacy
Intimacy

The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.

Related Definitions:
Association, Being, Close, Familiarity, Friendship, In, Intimate, Nearness, Of, Or, State, The


Intimacy Quotations

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
Jack Nicholson

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
Layne Staley

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
George Santayana

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
George Eliot

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
James Dobson

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Charles Baudelaire

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
J. Edgar Hoover

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Rollo May

San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.
George Halas

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
Lord Chesterfield

Intimacy Translations

intimacy in Latin is familiaritas
intimacy in Norwegian is fortrolighet
intimacy in Spanish is intimidad


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