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Definitions for: 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"
Webster (1913) 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.
Synonyms: familiarity, intimacy, intimacy, meanness, minginess, nearness, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, secretiveness, tightfistedness, tightness
Antonyms: farawayness, farness, openness, remoteness
See Also: adjacency, belonging, contiguity, contiguousness, distance, friendliness, furtiveness, miserliness, pettiness, propinquity, proximity, sneakiness, stealthiness, stinginess, togetherness, unsociability, unsociableness
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