Handiness vs Intimacy - What's the difference?
handiness | intimacy | Related terms |
feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality
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Handiness is a related term of intimacy.
As nouns the difference between handiness and intimacy
is that handiness is the quality or state of being handy while intimacy is feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality.intimacy
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(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.}}