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单词 intimacy
释义 in·ti·ma·cy
\ˈintəməsē, -si\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: intimate (II) + -cy
1. : the state of being intimate: as
 a. : close association or connection
  < the furnishings suggested at least some intimacy with the outside world — C.L.Jones >
  < in the city you are more free from unwelcome intimacy — M.R.Cohen >
 b. : close personal relationship especially marked by affection or love (as in close friendship)
  < a long intimacy with the governor of the state >
  < long continued intimacy with the fields and meadows about him — Encyc. Americana >
  < a common danger had made of these two enemies friends … and now that the danger had passed their intimacy was done — Jack McLaren >
 c. : a relationship marked by depth of knowledge or broadness of information
  < his intimacy with the history of the middle ages >
 d. : complete intermixture, compounding, or interweaving
  < would call for some effort to disentangle a relationship of things marked by such intimacy >
2. : the quality or state of being careful and searching in notation of details
 < an intimacy of observation which few scientists can equal — H.S.Canby >
3.
 a. : a sexual liberty taken
  < resented the pawing intimacies of the man who was driving the car — Erle Stanley Gardner >
 specifically : sexual intercourse
  < denied charges of having an affair with a married woman … though she said intimacy between them had taken place about 25 times — New York Enquirer >
  or an instance of it
  < indications that she had recently experienced an intimacy — R.O.Lawson & S.D.Greene >
 b. : an objectionable liberty taken with the person
  < became embarrassingly familiar with the intimacies of fame — Green Peyton >
4. : the quality of affecting one in a usually pleasant intimate personal way
 < music marked by an intimacy of expression >
5. : the state of seeming to be in a close friendly personal relationship — used of inanimate things
 < the almost cloistered intimacy of much of the route — American Guide Series: Vermont >
6. : the capacity for establishing oneself quickly in an intimate personal relationship
 < only one other man possessing this curious intimacy with wild things — Edison Marshall >
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