I. -_mə̇st noun
( -s )
Usage: often capitalized
Etymology: French intimiste, from intime intimate + -iste -ist
: an intimist painter
II. adjective
Usage: often capitalized
1. : of, relating to, or practicing intimism
2. of fiction : dealing chiefly with intimate and private especially psychological experiences
the peculiarly modern feeling of individual helplessness that the war brought into … people's consciousness, and it made sense of that emotion as the intimist novel does not as a rule — Anthony West