Interpersonal vs Intimate - What's the difference?
interpersonal | intimate |
Between two or more people.
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Closely acquainted; familiar.
Of or involved in a sexual relationship.
Personal; private.
A very close friend.
(in plural intimates ) Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.
To suggest or disclose discreetly.
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As adjectives the difference between interpersonal and intimate
is that interpersonal is between two or more people while intimate is closely acquainted; familiar.As a noun intimate is
a very close friend.As a verb intimate is
to suggest or disclose discreetly.interpersonal
English
Adjective
(-)- By slightly modifying Piaget's scheme of the development of
the capacity to follow and be aware of rules,1 I propose to
distinguish three stages, or types, of mastery of interpersonal
processes: coercion, self-help, and cooperation. Coercion is
the simplest rule to follow, self-help is the next most difficult,
and cooperation is the most demanding of them all.
intimate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an intimate friend
- He and his sister deeply valued their intimate relationship as they didn't have much else to live for.
- She enjoyed some intimate time alone with her husband.
- an intimate setting
Noun
(en noun)- Only a couple of intimates had ever read his writing.
- You'll find bras and panties in the women's intimates section upstairs.
Synonyms
* (close friend) bosom buddy, bosom friend, cater-cousinVerb
(intimat)- The Kaiser beamed. Von Bulow had praised him. Von Bulow had exalted him and humbled himself. The Kaiser could forgive anything after that. "Haven't I always told you," he exclaimed with enthusiasm, "that we complete one another famously? We should stick together, and we will!"
[...]
Von Bulow saved himself in time—but, canny diplomat that he was, he nevertheless had made one error: he should have begun by talking about his own shortcomings and Wilhelm's superiority—not by intimating that the Kaiser was a half-wit in need of a guardian.
- He intimated that we should leave before the argument escalated.
