closet vs intimate

closet

noun
  • One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes. 

  • A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies. 

  • A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet. 

  • A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity. 

  • An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad. 

  • The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager. 

verb
  • To shut away for private discussion. 

  • To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation. 

  • To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement. 

adj
  • closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet) 

  • Denoting anything kept a secret or private. 

intimate

noun
  • Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store. 

  • A very close friend. 

verb
  • To suggest or disclose (something) discreetly. 

  • To notify. 

adj
  • Pertaining to details that require great familiarity to know. 

  • Closely acquainted; familiar. 

  • Very finely mixed. 

  • Of or involved in a sexual relationship. 

  • Personal; private. 

How often have the words closet and intimate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )