intimacy

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun close or warm friendship
  2. noun a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
  3. noun a feeling of being intimate and belonging together

Etymology

From intimate + -cy.

In classic literature

Synonyms

familiarity, closeness

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