From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishintimacyin‧ti‧ma‧cy /ˈɪntəməsi/ noun1[uncountable]RELATIONSHIP a state of having a close personalrelationship with someoneintimacy ofthe intimacy of marriageintimacy betweena close sense of intimacy between parent and child2 →intimacies3[uncountable] a situation in which you feel you are in private with someonethe cosy intimacy of the café4[uncountable] formalsex – used especially by lawyers and police when they want to avoid using the word ‘sex’Examples from the Corpusintimacy• Intimacy took place on severaloccasions.• Building houses far apart reducesintimacy among neighbors.• the whisperedintimacies of lovers