Word Meanings - INTIMACY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship. Syn. -- Acquaintance; familiarity; fellowship; friendship. See Acquaintance.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTIMACY)

• Acquaintance
• Knowledge
• intimacy
• familiarity
• experience
• companionship
• Companionship
• Converse
• acquaintance
• friendliness
• association
• Intercourse
• Correspondence
• dealing
• intercommunication
• connection
• commerce

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INTIMACY)

• Keep silent
• Evade
• escape
• miss
• lose

Related words: (words related to INTIMACY)

• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• EXPERIENCED
  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
• ASSOCIATION
  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
• INTERCOMMUNICATION
  Mutual communication. Owen.
• ACQUAINTANCE
  1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
• ASSOCIATIONIST
  One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• DEALFISH
  A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
• INTIMACY
  The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship. Syn. -- Acquaintance; familiarity; fellowship; friendship. See Acquaintance.
• INTERCOURSE
  A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
• EVADE
  To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument. The heathen had a method, more truly their
• ASSOCIATIONISM
  The doctrine or theory held by associationists.
• DEAL
  The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.
• SILENTIARY
  One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secre
• CONVERSELY
  In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally. J. S. Mill.
• FAMILIARITY
  1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity. 2. Anything said or done by one person to another
• DEALBATE
  To whiten. Cockeram.
• ESCAPEMENT
  1. The act of escaping; escape. 2. Way of escape; vent. An escapement for youthful high spirits. G. Eliot. 3. The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by
• CONVERSE
  to be turned, to live, remain, fr. versare to turn often, v. intens. 1. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with. To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature. Thomson. Conversing with the world,
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• INACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance. Good.
• WATER ORDEAL
  See 1
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.