(n.) The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(2) To which Salim replies: “But you do.” When such intimacy between two men can be broadcast to an audience of millions, we are shown that the ways of portraying gay sex can be reframed.
(3) Self- and friend ratings of friendship intimacy were gathered using a 2-step procedure ensuring that students rated only reciprocated friendships.
(4) Their relationship to the clinical situation on index case and the intimacy of exposure is analyzed.
(5) This therapy is done in three stages: (1) dryness (assessment and detoxification); (2) sobriety (achieving stable abstinence); and (3) wellness (using sobriety as a basis for personal growth and intimacy.
(6) Empathy is a general or superordinate term for many more specific aspects of the sensitive interpersonal interactions in the intimacy of relationships like the psychoanalytic one.
(7) These patients may experience delayed mastery of developmental tasks, intimacy, and independence and may have long-term psychological sequelae.
(8) Factor analysis yielded four indices: a) impact of disease (e.g., being a burden, loss of energy, loss of bowel control); b) sexual intimacy; c) complications of disease (e.g., developing cancer, having surgery, dying early); and d) body stigma (e.g., feeling dirty or smelly).
(9) Adult diaries and novels written by the British feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain (1893-1970) were content analyzed for Eriksonian themes of identity, intimacy, and generativity.
(10) Also, the individuals' intimacy of disclosure to peers was not correlated with the intimacy of disclosure received from them; indicating a lack of reciprocity of self-disclosure.
(11) The intimacy between community members and the doctor's own friendships with families, the distance to specialized services and the hardship travel might cause for patients, the economic risks in treating indigents in an already financially strapped small facility, and the physician's role as a citizen as well as health care provider are factors that cannot be ignored in treatment decisions.
(12) As robots become more intelligent, they will be able to provide the illusion of care –providing practical support, conversation, even intimacy .
(13) Fox was famously burned by the British press in 2001, on the release of Intimacy, an odd, joyless film adaptation of several Hanif Kureishi short stories, in which she and Mark Rylance played characters who meet every week to couple on his dirty carpet.
(14) In the thrall of social media and smartphones, we are drip-fed a steady supply of Instagram-filtered intimacy – and in this world, negative emotions and loneliness are taboo.
(15) The implications of these findings are discussed and the contingency of intimacy upon ego identity is questioned with regard to females.
(16) They conceptualized attitudes toward AIDS, developed items reflecting diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, and achievement statuses in development, and assessed their relationships to identity and intimacy, while predicting overall that general maturity, as measured by high identity and intimacy, would relate positively to precautionary attitudes toward AIDS.
(17) The protective aspects of intimacy are discussed together with evidence that certain personality types promote it in the marital situation while others do not.
(18) Three features of friendship were examined: intimacy, empathy, and stability over time.
(19) Perhaps unsurprisingly, the illusion of intimacy that new social networking sites afforded suited the confessional bent of these young, female singer-songwriters.
(20) In a study of 31 young married couples, scores on each dimension of intimacy maturity were analyzed in relation to gender, gender role (as assessed through an adaptation of the Bem Sex Role Inventory; Bem, 1974), and marital adjustment.
Intimation
Definition:
(n.) The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.
(n.) Announcement; declaration.
(n.) A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design.
Example Sentences:
(1) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(2) The quantity of social ties, the quality of relationships as modified by type of intimate, and the baseline level of symptoms measured five years earlier were significant predictors of psychosomatic symptoms among this sample of women.
(3) Rifampin is recommended as a prophylactic treatment for intimate contacts of young children who develop invasive infections with Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib).
(4) Autopsy revealed a primary intimal sarcoma with osteogenic elements arising in the posterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve and obstructing the main pulmonary artery and its right branch.
(5) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
(6) Intimal damage and proliferation were seen in 1st- and 2nd-order branches of the carotid body artery in hypertensive rats and point-counting showed that the volume proportion of Type 1 cell nuclei and vascular lumen was reduced and vascular wall increased.
(7) The results suggest that the conversion of the HRP-TMB reaction product to an electron-dense form during osmication is intimately associated with the pH of the phosphate buffer and the total time of osmication.
(8) Electron-microscopic examination of the co-culture of the two cell types reveals extensive region of intimate contact.
(9) In abnormal arteries such as small vessels present in inflammatory tissue, the IEL was frequently discontinuous and associated with intimal thickening.
(10) The calculations revealed that local hypoxia and lipoprotein accumulation may occur at the ridges, leading to subsequent intimal thickening and ridge growth.
(11) The development of intimal hyperplasia is not excluded, as well as of inflammatory reaction with the following thrombotic occlusion of the artery lumen.
(12) Fatty streaks were observed in 2nd decade involving only 7.5% of the total intimal surface and reaching to a maximum of 22.2% in the 3rd decade, followed by a gradual rise to 9.2% in 7th decade.
(13) It shows how some experimental procedures produce dramatic increases in smooth muscle cell proliferation and, in many cases, subsequent cell migration to the intimal layer.
(14) Ultrastructurally, transgenic domains were often intimately connected with constitutive heterochromatin and were highly condensed.
(15) Since lymphocytic cells in intimate contact with degenerating keratocytes have previously been identified in the cornea, these observations provide a basis for the view that cell-mediated immunopathogenesis is involved in the etiology of herpetic stromal keratitis.
(16) Intimal area, lumen area and maximal intimal thickness were measured.
(17) Although hormone replacement decreased indexes of LDL metabolism, there was no effect on intimal thickness or indexes of endothelial injury, such as leukocyte adhesion and endothelial cell turnover rate.
(18) An intimate account of her last hours was given on Monday by Lady (Carla) Powell, the Italian wife of Thatcher's former diplomatic adviser Lord Powell, who had visited her often in her declining years, and whose house outside Rome the former prime minister had visited on several occasions.
(19) Not intimately associated with a nonvital tooth or found to have any communication with the incisive canal.
(20) Administration of GM1 blocks completely the appearance of PKM, a result suggesting that PKC down-regulation and PKM activity elevation are intimately associated events and that both are regulated by GM1 ganglioside.