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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Intimacy \In"ti*ma*cy\, n.; pl {Intimacies}. [From {Intimate}.] The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship. Syn: Acquaintance; familiarity; fellowship; friendship. See {Acquaintance}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: intimacy n 1: close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" [syn: {familiarity}, {closeness}] 2: a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship [syn: {affair}, {affaire}, {liaison}, {involvement}, {amour}] 3: a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on" [syn: {closeness}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. Two Seidlitz powders, one in blue And one in white, together drew And having each a pleasant sense Of t'other powder's excellence, Forsook their jackets for the snug Enjoyment of a common mug. So close their intimacy grew One paper would have held the two To confidences straight they fell, Less anxious each to hear than tell Then each remorsefully confessed To all the virtues he possessed, Acknowledging he had them in So high degree it was a sin. The more they said the more they felt Their spirits with emotion melt, Till tears of sentiment expressed Their feelings. Then they effervesced! So Nature executes her feats Of wrath on friends and sympathetes The good old rule who don't apply, That you are you and I am I.
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