intimacy

the intimacy between a husband and wife.

His claims to an intimacy with the President are somewhat exaggerated.

He is exchanging intimacies with his friends.

the room had a peaceful sense of intimacy about it.

he acquired an intimacy with Swahili literature.

The intimacy of the room was enhanced by its warm colours.

here she was sitting swapping intimacies with a stranger.

emotions and intimacy issues that were largely dealt with through alcohol.

his relationships did not permit the degree of self-revelation that true intimacy presupposes.

His intimacy with Japan makes him the likely choice as ambassador to that country.

From the work sprang a friendship perhaps incomparable in intimacy and the trustfulness of collaboration and induration.

Whether their intimacy was sexual, as was Lord Byron's with his half-sister Augusta, is not something that can ever be known, though it was scurrilously gossiped about even at the time.

Cultured, idealistic, sympathetic, he seemed to Tess a demigod ,and though she had sworn herself to celibacy, the enforced propinquity ripened into intimacy and drifted into love.