Intimate may refer to:
- Intimate examination, a physical examination for medical purposes that includes examination of the breasts, genitalia, or rectum of a patient
- Intimate ion pair, the interactions between a cation, anion and surrounding solvent molecules
- Intimate media, media artifacts created and collected to capture and commemorate aspects of family and intimate relationships
- Intimate part, a place on the human body which it is usually customary to keep covered with clothing in public areas
- Intimate relationship, a particularly close interpersonal relationship
- Intimate (album), the debut album by Australian actress and singer Toni Pearen
Famous quotes containing the word intimate:
“Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it’s intimate and psychological—resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, griefs, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations—all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)
“We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorous and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent and intimate hours.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)