Availability vs Intimacy - What's the difference?
availability | intimacy | Related terms |
(chiefly, uncountable) The quality of being available.
(countable) That which is available.
feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality
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Availability is a related term of intimacy.
As nouns the difference between availability and intimacy
is that availability is (chiefly|uncountable) the quality of being available while intimacy is feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality.availability
English
Noun
(availabilities)- What is your availability this week?
- We have several availabilities .
Synonyms
* (quality of being available) availableness, accessibilityAntonyms
* (quality of being available) unavailabilityintimacy
English
Noun
(wikipedia intimacy) (intimacies)citation, page= , passage=The Conan O’Brien-penned half-hour has the capacity to rip our collective hearts out the way the cute, funny bad girl next door does to Bart when she reveals that her new boyfriend is Jimbo Jones, but the show keeps shying away from genuine emotion in favor of jokes that, while overwhelmingly funny, detract from the poignancy and the emotional intimacy of the episode.}}
