Definition of "intimity" [intimity]

• Intimate association; intimacy. (noun)
• Intimate quality; inward or inner nature; close seclusion or privacy. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It is one of those foreign feathers, like intimism, intimity, femininity, distinction and distinguished (the last pair now banalities if anything was ever banal; so do extremes meet), in which writers of literary criticism love to parade, and which ordinary persons should do their best to pluck from them, protesting when there is a chance, and at all times refusing the compliment of imitation."
• "Page view page image: the poetry of nature surprized in her intimity, the charm of a spectacle which is in itself all-sufficient."
• "Suddenly a sense of the difference between the week behind him, with all its ups and downs, its quarrels, its _ennuis_, its moments of delightful intimity, of artistic freedom and pleasure, and those threadbare monotonous weeks into which he was to slip back on the morrow, awoke in him a mad inconsequent sting of disgust, of self-pity."