intimacy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, often but not necessarily involving sexuality. countable,uncountable
    — To adulterous lust the most sacred duties are sacrificed, because, before marriage, men, by a promiscuous intimacy with women, learned to consider love as a selfish gratification—learned to separate it not only from esteem, but from the affection merely built on habit, which mixes a little humanity with it.
  2. Intimate relationship. countable
    — 1787, Robert Burns, Letter to Dr. Moore, 23 April, 1787, in J. Logie Robertson (ed.), The Letters of Robert Burns, Selected and Arranged, with an Introduction, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 57, I have formed many intimacies and friendships here, but I am afraid they are all of too tender a construction to bear carriage a hundred and fifty miles.
  3. Intimate detail, (item of) intimate information. countable,especially,plural
    — He recognized the tone as the one used by friendly sisters to discuss the infirmities of their husbands. It was Shama’s plea to a sister to exchange intimacies, to show support.

词形变化

intimacies plural

词汇关系

反义词
solitude
衍生词
intimacy coordinator unintimacy
相关词
intimate intimation

词源

Etymology tree
English intimate
English -cy
English intimacy
From intimate + -cy.
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