Meaning of CLOSENESS
| Pronunciation: | | kl'owsnus
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | familiarity, intimacy, intimacy, meanness, minginess, nearness, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, secretiveness, tightfistedness, tightness |
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| | Antonyms: | | farawayness, farness, openness, remoteness | | |
| | See Also: | | adjacency, belonging, contiguity, contiguousness, distance, friendliness, furtiveness, miserliness, pettiness, propinquity, proximity, sneakiness, stealthiness, stinginess, togetherness, unsociability, unsociableness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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