OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 27100

intimacy

/ˈɪn.tɪ.mə.si/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
intimidad
Feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, often but not necessarily involving sexuality.
1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Truth of Intercourse” in Essays, English and American, The Harvard Classics, Volume 28, edited by Charles W. Eliot, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 191…
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—l…
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