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Intimacy vs Bromance - What's the difference?

intimacy | bromance |

As nouns the difference between intimacy and bromance

is that intimacy is feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality while bromance is a close but non-sexual relationship between two men, a form of homosocial intimacy.

intimacy

English

Noun

(wikipedia intimacy) (intimacies)
  • feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality
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    Antonyms

    * solitude

    bromance

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A close but non-sexual relationship between two men, a form of homosocial intimacy.
  • Synonyms

    * man crush

    Coordinate terms

    * girl crush * womance

    Derived terms

    * bromantic

    See also

    * queerplatonic

    References