Closeness

n.

1.

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.

Noun	1.	closeness - a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on" Synonyms: intimacy
	2.	closeness - the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action" Synonyms: nearness
	3.	closeness - extreme stinginess Synonyms: minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, tightfistedness, tightness, meanness, parsimoniousness, parsimony
	4.	closeness - characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes) Synonyms: secretiveness Antonyms: openness - characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); not secretive
	5.	closeness - close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" Synonyms: intimacy, familiarity

THI, 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, 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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