intimacyn.
/ˈɪntɪməsi/ The quality or condition of being intimate.† 3. Inner or inmost nature; an inward quality or feature. Obsolete.
1.
a. The state of being personally intimate; intimate friendship or acquaintance; familiar intercourse; close familiarity; an instance of this.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute
i-cundeOE
kindOE
thingOE
quality1340
virtue1340
assizea1375
propertyc1390
principlea1398
conditionc1460
faculty1490
predicatea1513
epitheton1547
passion1570
propriety1584
affection1588
attribute1603
qualification1616
appropriate1618
intimacy1641
bedighting1674
belonger1674
cleaver1674
interiority1701
internal property1751
predicable1785
coloration1799
internality1839
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > intimacy
privitya1250
nearnessc1485
familiarness1539
inwardness1578
greatnessa1586
privatenessa1586
entireness1599
habitude1612
gossiprya1614
strictnessc1614
mutualitiesa1616
particulara1616
intimity1617
privancy1622
privacy1638
intimacy1641
intimateness1642
familiarity1664
throng1768
closeness1851
close harmony1876
innerliness1888
insociation1893
dearness-
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 180 Any other noble, and lawfull familiarities of intimacie, and deerenesse.
1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. ix. 201 That they did dissemble..my own intimacy with them assured me.
1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe II. 197 A Friend of mine that was of their Intimacy.
1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family III. 140 The closest intimacy was immediately struck up between them.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. iii. 46 Sir Thomas drawing back from intimacies in general. View more context for this quotation
1898 A. W. W. Dale Life R. W. Dale iii. 43 Intimacy and affection..have turned the dead volumes into living friends.
b. euphemistic for sexual intercourse.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse
ymonec950
moneOE
meanc1175
manredc1275
swivinga1300
couplec1320
companyc1330
fellowred1340
the service of Venusc1350
miskissinga1387
fellowshipc1390
meddlinga1398
carnal knowinga1400
flesha1400
knowledgea1400
knowledginga1400
japec1400
commoning?c1425
commixtionc1429
itc1440
communicationc1450
couplingc1475
mellingc1480
carnality1483
copulation1483
mixturea1500
Venus act?1507
Venus exercise?1507
Venus play?1507
Venus work?1507
conversation?c1510
flesh-company1522
act?1532
carnal knowledge1532
occupying?1544
congression1546
soil1555
conjunction1567
fucking1568
rem in re1568
commixture1573
coiture1574
shaking of the sheets?1577
cohabitation1579
bedding1589
congress1589
union1598
embrace1599
making-outa1601
rutting1600
noddy1602
poop-noddy1606
conversinga1610
carnal confederacy1610
wapping1610
businessa1612
coition1615
doinga1616
amation1623
commerce1624
hot cocklesa1627
other thing1628
buck1632
act of love1638
commistion1658
subagitation1658
cuntc1664
coit1671
intimacy1676
the last favour1676
quiffing1686
old hat1697
correspondence1698
frigging1708
Moll Peatley1711
coitus1713
sexual intercourse1753
shagging1772
connection1791
intercourse1803
interunion1822
greens1846
tail1846
copula1864
poking1864
fuckeea1866
sex relation1871
wantonizing1884
belly-flopping1893
twatting1893
jelly roll1895
mattress-jig1896
sex1900
screwing1904
jazz1918
zig-zig1918
other1922
booty1926
pigmeat1926
jazzing1927
poontang1927
relations1927
whoopee1928
nookie1930
hump1931
jig-a-jig1932
homework1933
quickie1933
nasty1934
jig-jig1935
crumpet1936
pussy1937
Sir Berkeley1937
pom-pom1945
poon1947
charvering1954
mollocking1959
leg1967
rumpy-pumpy1968
shafting1971
home plate1972
pata-pata1977
bonking1985
legover1985
knobbing1986
rumpo1986
fanny1993
1676 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Acct. Voy. Athens 70 Having a mutual desire to continue their intimacy.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xii. 151 Cæsar was accused of criminal intimacy with many ladies of the highest rank.
1889 Daily News 23 Jan. 2/6 The defendant..did not however have intimacy with her. He had never been intimate with her.
1906 B. Webb in S. Hynes Edwardian Turn of Mind (1968) iv. 114 Friendship between particular men and women..is practically impossible..without physical intimacy... There remains the question whether, with all the perturbation caused by such intimacies, you would have any brain left to think with?
1907 Westm. Gaz. 14 Dec. 11/2 She stayed the night with Wood at his father's house... Intimacy took place on that occasion.
1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 71 Intimacy, close friendship, but also as a synonym for sexual intercourse.
c. Closeness of observation, knowledge, or the like.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > [noun]
enqueyntance1297
knowledgec1384
homeliness1402
acquaintancec1540
familiarity1574
habit1586
discourse1603
frequence1603
familiarness1612
conversationa1626
conversea1652
acquaintedness1661
intimacy1714
inquaintancea1834
hability1840
1714 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 3) I. Advt. sig. A2v The Observations..had not enter'd with intimacy enough into that Subject.
1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revelation ii. 57 There is a something in the intimacy of a man's own experience.
2. Intimate or close connection or union. rare.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > affinity or closeness
cousinagea1398
alliancea1475
affinityc1485
propinquitya1500
societya1513
kindred1528
cognationa1555
affinitive1579
sympathya1586
vicinity1594
affiance1597
contingence1612
contingency1612
congeniality1620
umbilicality1646
consanguinity1651
congeneracy1664
gossipred1674
congenerousness1677
closeness1692
intimacy1720
proximity1762
liaison1809
cousinship1848
affiliation1870
kinship1876
1720 D. Waterland 8 Serm. Divinity of Christ 137 The Union and Intimacy between Father and Son is such, that they are not two Gods, but one God.
1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. i. v. 85 Explosions occur only..where the elements concerned are..distributed among one another molecularly, or, as in gunpowder, with minute intimacy.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun]
pitheOE
i-cundeeOE
roota1325
substancec1330
juicec1380
marrowa1382
formc1385
acta1398
quidditya1398
substantial forma1398
inward1398
savourc1400
inwardc1450
allaya1456
essencya1475
being1521
bottom1531
spirit?1534
summary1548
ecceity1549
core1556
flower1568
formality1570
sum and substance1572
alloy1594
soul1598
inwardness1605
quid1606
fibre1607
selfness1611
whatness1611
essentialityc1616
propera1626
the whole shot1628
substantiala1631
esse1642
entity1643
virtuality1646
ingeny1647
quoddity1647
intimacy1648
ens1649
inbeing1661
essence1667
interiority1701
intrinsic1716
stamen1758
character1761
quidditas1782
hyparxis1792
rasa1800
bone1829
what1861
isness1865
inscape1868
as-suchness1909
Wesen1959
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [noun] > quality of being particular or not general > quality of being personal > quality of being intimate or private
privatenessa1586
privacya1625
intimacy1648
intimity1889
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Inwendigheydt, inwardnesse, or Intimacie.
1771 P. H. Impartial View Late Parl. 118 Every one that had the Honour to be acquainted with the Intimacies of this Gentleman's Skill and Address, knew him form'd for the Prime Management in whatever he undertook.
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