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Narrowness vs Intimacy - What's the difference?

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Narrowness is a related term of intimacy.


As nouns the difference between narrowness and intimacy

is that narrowness is (uncountable) the state of being narrow while intimacy is feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality.

narrowness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) the state of being narrow
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , presently, then, I felt the stiff insertion between the yielding, divided lips of the wound, now open for life; where the narrowness no longer put me to intolerable pain, and afforded my lover no more difficulty than what heighten'd his pleasure, in the strict embrace of that tender, warm sheath, round the instrument it was so delicately adjusted to}}
  • (countable) a constriction

    • Antonyms

    *(state of being narrow) broadness, wideness

    intimacy

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia intimacy) (intimacies)
  • feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 27 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club 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.}}

    Antonyms

    * solitude

    Related terms

    * intimate * intimation