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

Derived forms: intimacies

Type of: belonging, friendliness, sexual relationship

Encyclopedia: Intimacy