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| Main Entry: | intimacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | closeness between people |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, affection, affinity, communion, confidence, experience, familiarity, friendship, understanding, close relationship, confidentiality, inwardness |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, incompatibility |
| Main Entry: | camaraderie |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship |
| Synonyms: | cheer, companionship, conviviality, esprit de corps, fellowship, intimacy, jollity, togetherness, companionability, comradeship, gregariousness, sociability |
| Antonyms: | bad blood, dislike, hate |
| Main Entry: | debauchery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | immoral self-indulgence |
| Synonyms: | bender*, binge, blowout*, bust, carousal, depravity, dissipation, drunk*, excess, fornication, incontinence, indulgence, intemperance, intimacy, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, license, lust, orgy, overindulgence, revel, revelry, seduction, tear*, burning candle at both ends, dissoluteness, fast living, gluttony, la dolce vita, licentiousness, life in fast lane, sensuality, sybaritism |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, giving, unselfishness, mercifulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fellowship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sociability, association |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, alliance, amity, camaraderie, club, communion, companionship, company, conviviality, familiarity, friendliness, guild, intimacy, league, order, society, sodality, togetherness, affability, companionability, comradeship, kindliness |
| Main Entry: | fornication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual intercourse |
| Synonyms: | copulation, intimacy, lovemaking, sex, coition, coitus, relations, screwing around, sleeping around |
| Main Entry: | friendship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | companionship |
| Synonyms: | accord, affection, affinity, agreement, alliance, amity, association, attachment, attraction, benevolence, closeness, coalition, company, concord, consideration, consonance, devotion, empathy, esteem, familiarity, favor, favoritism, fondness, friendliness, fusion, good will, harmony, intimacy, league, love, pact, partiality, rapport, regard, society, sodality, solidarity, understanding, acquaintanceship, amiability, amicability, comity, sociability |
| Antonyms: | enmity, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | lovemaking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual activity |
| Synonyms: | carnal knowledge, copulation, courtship, dalliance, foreplay, intercourse, intimacy, kissing, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, coition, coitus, coquetting, courting, cuddling, fondling, fooling around, hugging, mating, screwing, smooching, snuggling, sucking face |
| Main Entry: | copulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coitus |
| Synonyms: | carnal knowledge, fornication, intercourse, intimacy, lovemaking, procreation, sex, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, coition, coupling, fooling around, mating, nooky, relations, sexual union |
| Main Entry: | carnal knowledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual intercourse |
| Synonyms: | copulation, fornication, intercourse, intimacy, procreation, sex, coition, coitus, love making, relations, sex act, sexual congress, sexual relation |
| Main Entry: | sexual relations |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | having sex |
| Synonyms: | carnal knowledge, copulation, intercourse, intimacy, lovemaking, sexual intercourse, cohabitation, coitus, marital relations, mating, nookie, relations, screwing, sexual union, sleeping together, sleeping with |
| Main Entry: | togetherness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affectionate closeness |
| Synonyms: | affection, closeness, fellowship, friendship, intimacy, close feeling, inseparableness, warm fellowship |
| Antonyms: | disaffection, discord, estrangement, unfriendliness |
| Main Entry: | communion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affinity, agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, association, closeness, concord, contact, converse, fellowship, harmony, intercourse, intimacy, participation, rapport, sympathy, togetherness, unity, close relationship, communing, intercommunication |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, contention, disagreement, discord, division, hostility, variance, disunity |
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, intimacy, involvement, judgment, know-how*, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, forebearance, inwardness, worldliness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, immaturity, inexperience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | familiarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendliness |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, boldness, closeness, ease, fellowship, forwardness, freedom, freshness, friendship, intimacy, liberty, presumption, acquaintanceship, informality, naturalness, openness, sociability, unceremoniousness |
| Antonyms: | cool, distance, frigidity, reserve, aloofness, unfriendliness |
| Main Entry: | intercourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual act |
| Synonyms: | carnal knowledge, copulation, fornication, intimacy, sex, sexual relations, coition, coitus, love-making, relations |
| Main Entry: | acquaintance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge of something through experience |
| Synonyms: | awareness, cognizance, familiarity, fellowship, grasp, intimacy, ken, relationship, understanding, conversance |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, strangeness, unfamiliarity |
| Main Entry: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illicit sexual relationship |
| Synonyms: | amour, extracurricular activity*, fling, hanky-panky*, intimacy, intrigue, liaison, love, relationship, rendezvous, romance, two-timing, affaire, carrying on, goings-on, playing around, thing together |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | association |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, affiliation, agreement, assistance, camaraderie, companionship, conjunction, cooperation, familiarity, fellowship, friendliness, intimacy, membership, participation, partnership, relation, relationship, acquaintanceship, comradeship, fraternization, frequenting, hookup |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, isolation, opposition, rivalry, seclusion, separation, solitude, aloneness, disunion |
| Main Entry: | intrigue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | love affair |
| Synonyms: | affair, amour, attachment, case, flirtation, infatuation, interlude, intimacy, liaison, romance |
| Main Entry: | sex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intercourse between animate beings |
| Synonyms: | copulation, fornication, generation, intimacy, lovemaking, magnetism, procreation, reproduction, sexuality, birds and the bees, coition, coitus, facts of life, relations, sensuality |
| Notes: | gender is the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; sex is either of the two categories, male or female, into which most organisms are divided |
| Antonyms: | abstention, chastity |
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