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Closeness

Closeness Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Closeness? [n] close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" [n] characterized by a lack of openness esp about one's actions or purposes [n] extreme stinginess [n] the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action" [n] a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Closeness: familiarity \| intimacy \| intimacy \| meanness \| minginess \| nearness \| niggardliness \| niggardness \| parsimoniousness \| parsimony \| secretiveness \| tightfistedness \| tightness Related Terms \| Find terms related to Closeness: accord \| accordance \| addition \| adjunct \| affairs \| affiliation \| affinity \| agreement \| airlessness \| airtight secrecy \| alikeness \| alliance \| analogy \| aping \| approach \| approximation \| assemblage \| assimilation \| association \| avarice \| bond \| cheapness \| chumminess \| close secrecy \| closefistedness \| combination \| community \| compactness \| comparability \| comparison \| concealment \| confinement \| confines \| conformity \| congestedness \| congestion \| connectedness \| connection \| consistence \| consistency \| contiguity \| contrariety \| convergence \| copying \| correspondence \| crowdedness \| crypticness \| dealings \| deduction \| denseness \| density \| discreetness \| discretion \| disjunction \| environs \| evasion \| evasiveness \| familiarity \| filiation \| firmness \| foreground \| gluiness \| hair \| hairbreadth \| hairsbreadth \| hardfistedness \| hardness \| hiddenness \| hoarding \| homology \| hugger-mugger \| hugger-muggery \| humidity \| humidness \| identity \| illiberality \| imitation \| immediacy \| immediate foreground \| impenetrability \| impermeability \| imporosity \| incapaciousness \| incommodiousness \| incompressibility \| indisposition to speak \| inseparableness \| intercourse \| intimacy \| intimate acquaintance \| jammedness \| junction \| lack of meaning \| lack of message \| liaison \| likeness \| likening \| limitation \| link \| linkage \| linking \| mateyness \| meaninglessness \| metaphor \| mimicking \| miserliness \| mugginess \| mutual attraction \| narrow gauge \| narrowness \| nearness \| neighborhood \| nighness \| oppression \| oppressiveness \| palliness \| parallelism \| parity \| penny-pinching \| precinct \| propinquity \| proximity \| purlieus \| rapport \| relatedness \| relation \| relations \| relationship \| relative density \| resemblance \| restrictedness \| restriction \| sameness \| secrecy \| secretiveness \| secretness \| semblance \| similarity \| simile \| similitude \| simulation \| slenderness \| solidity \| solidness \| special affinity \| specific gravity \| spissitude \| stickiness \| stinginess \| straitness \| strictness \| stuffiness \| subterfuge \| swelter \| sympathy \| temperature-humidity index \| the dark \| THI \| thickness \| tie \| tie-in \| tight purse strings \| tight squeeze \| tightfistedness \| tightness \| uncommunicativeness \| unconversableness \| ungenerosity \| union \| unsociability \| vicinage \| vicinity \| viscidity \| viscosity \| viscousness See Also \| adjacency \| belonging \| contiguity \| contiguousness \| distance \| friendliness \| furtiveness \| miserliness \| pettiness \| propinquity \| proximity \| sneakiness \| stealthiness \| stinginess \| togetherness \| unsociability \| unsociableness Closeness In Webster's Dictionary \Close"ness\, n. The state of being close. Half stifled by the closeness of the room. --Swift. We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius. --Bacon. An affectation of closeness and covetousness. --Addison. Syn: Narrowness; oppressiveness; strictness; secrecy; compactness; conciseness; nearness; intimacy; tightness; stinginess; literalness.

Closeness Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Closeness?

[n] close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"
[n] characterized by a lack of openness esp about one's actions or purposes
[n] extreme stinginess
[n] the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action"
[n] a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on"

Closeness In Webster's Dictionary

\Close"ness\, n.
The state of being close.

      Half stifled by the closeness of the room. --Swift.

      We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus,
      nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius.
                                               --Bacon.

      An affectation of closeness and covetousness.
                                               --Addison.

Syn: Narrowness; oppressiveness; strictness; secrecy;
     compactness; conciseness; nearness; intimacy; tightness;
     stinginess; literalness.

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