Qualities
Synonyms for intimacy
Synonyms for intimacy: familiarity and closeness. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for intimacy
Interchangeable with intimacy in this sense
Audited under intimacy's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one intimacy carries in that sense.
- familiaritynoun, in the sense "close or warm friendship"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name intimacy as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- closenesscloseness is a noun in the sense "a feeling of being intimate and belonging together"
one of these comes from intimacy's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
close or warm friendship
The absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy.
The true synonym
familiarity
Same sentence, swapped: The absence of fences created a mysterious familiarity in which no one knew privacy.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot intimacy is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- liaison
- amity
- accessibility
Where intimacy turns up in the game
intimacy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where intimacy is the trap
- liaisonnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is contact, in the sense "a channel for communication between groups", with intimacy sitting one tile away.
Play intimacy
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so intimacy reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. intimacy carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.