(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.
Inwardness
Definition:
(n.) Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct.
(n.) Intimacy; familiarity.
(n.) Heartiness; earnestness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The maximum amplitude of the inward Na+ current, normalized by cell capacitance, is about sixfold larger, on the average, in LP lactotropes than in SP lactotropes.
(2) In contrast with oligodendrocytes, [Cl-]i in astrocytes is significantly increased (from 20 to 40 mM) above the equilibrium distribution owing to the activity of an inward directed Cl- pump; this suggests a different mechanism of K+ uptake in these cells.
(3) The differentiated neuroblastoma cell possesses characteristics of an electrically excitable cell and can generate propagated potential spikes in which Ca2+ is the inward charge carrier.
(4) This response seemed to be triggered mainly by the influx of Ca2+ through L-type Ca2+ channel activated by membrane depolarization, which was caused by the ATP-induced inward current.
(5) I have equated nationalism with racism, xenophobia, inward-looking-ness and militarism.
(6) From this, and previous studies indicating a dependency of contraction frequency on the inward verapamil-sensitive Na influx, it is suggested that the drugs modify the automaticity of this preparation by a primary influence on membrane Na exchange.
(7) We used two experimental techniques to study the effect of lidocaine hydrochloride on the early inward transient (sodium) current as it is reflected by the maximum rate of change of action potential phase 0 (Vmax).
(8) Ca2+ inward currents evoked by membrane depolarization have been studied by the intracellular dialysis technique in the somatic membrane of isolated dorsal root ganglion neurones of new-born rats.
(9) Furthermore, clonidine can abolish, in reversible fashion, the acetylcholine-activated inward current determined with patch-clamp.
(10) In the type II response kainate caused prominent inward currents at -60 mV in Na(+)-free, 10 mM-Ca2+ solution.
(11) The kinetics of the membrane current during the anomalous or inward-going rectification of the K current in the egg cell membrane of the starfish Mediaster aequalis were analyzed by voltage clamp.
(12) L-type ICa, an inward-going sustained current, was activated with depolarization more positive than -25 mV.
(13) Displacements of the hair bundle towards the taller stereocilia generated inward-going m-e.t.
(14) At low concentrations, the current-voltage relations are inwardly rectifying, but they become more ohmic if a small amount of divalent cations is added externally.
(15) Divalent cations (2 mM-Ni2+, 1 mM-Ba2+ or 2 mM-Ca2+) reduced only the outward current in the Tris Na(+)-free solution, while in the 150 mM-Na+ solution, they reduced both the inward and outward components of the current which had a reversal potential of around -10 mV.
(16) Large negative-going pulses elicited proportionally larger inward currents that decayed during the pulse with voltage-dependent kinetics.
(17) In the absence of Ca2+ (but with Mg2+ present) the inward current disappeared but a large, inactivating outward current appeared when V greater than 0 mV.
(18) -57 mV) induced a large voltage-dependent inward current which has been identified as the K current through the anomalous rectifier (Ianomal.).
(19) In most cells superfused with 10 mM-Ca2+, a transient inward Ca2+ current was evoked by a step depolarization to potentials more positive than -65 mV from a holding potential of -100 mV.
(20) In the affective realm, the Rorschach scores reflected the predicted decrease in uncontrolled expression of affect, increase in controlled expression of affect, and increase in inwardness.