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intimacies
[in-tuh-muh-see] 
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intimacy
[in-tuh-muh-see]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | closeness between people |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, affection, affinity, close relationship, communion, confidence, confidentiality, experience, familiarity, friendship, inwardness, understanding |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, incompatibility |
| Main Entry: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illicit sexual relationship |
| Synonyms: | affaire, amour, carrying on, extracurricular activity, fling, goings-on, hanky-panky, intimacy, intrigue, liaison, love, playing around, relationship, rendezvous, romance, thing together, two-timing |
| Main Entry: | association |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, acquaintanceship, affiliation, agreement, assistance, camaraderie, companionship, comradeship, conjunction, cooperation, familiarity, fellowship, fraternization, frequenting, friendliness, hookup, intimacy, membership, participation, partnership, relation, relationship |
| Antonyms: | aloneness, antagonism, disunion, isolation, opposition, rivalry, seclusion, separation, solitude |
| Main Entry: | camaraderie |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship |
| Synonyms: | cheer, companionability, companionship, comradeship, conviviality, esprit de corps, fellowship, gregariousness, intimacy, jollity, sociability, togetherness |
| Antonyms: | bad blood, dislike, hate |
| Main Entry: | communion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affinity, agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, association, close relationship, closeness, communing, concord, contact, converse, fellowship, harmony, intercommunication, intercourse, intimacy, participation, rapport, sympathy, togetherness, unity |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, contention, disagreement, discord, disunity, division, hostility, variance |
| Main Entry: | debauchery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | immoral self-indulgence |
| Synonyms: | bender, binge, blowout, burning candle at both ends, bust, carousal, depravity, dissipation, dissoluteness, drunk*, excess, fast living, fornication, gluttony, incontinence, indulgence, intemperance, intimacy, la dolce vita, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, license, licentiousness, life in fast lane, lust, orgy, overindulgence, revel, revelry, seduction, sensuality, sybaritism, tear* |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, giving, mercifulness, unselfishness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, forebearance, intimacy, involvement, inwardness, judgment, know-how, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, worldliness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, immaturity, inexperience |
| Main Entry: | familiarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendliness |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, acquaintanceship, boldness, closeness, ease, fellowship, forwardness, freedom, freshness, friendship, informality, intimacy, liberty, naturalness, openness, presumption, sociability, unceremoniousness |
| Antonyms: | aloofness, cool, distance, frigidity, reserve, unfriendliness |
| Main Entry: | fellowship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sociability, association |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, affability, alliance, amity, camaraderie, club, communion, companionability, companionship, company, comradeship, conviviality, familiarity, friendliness, guild, intimacy, kindliness, league, order, society, sodality, togetherness |
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