noun
1. a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
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their closeness grew as the night wore on
• Syn: ↑intimacy
• Derivationally related forms: ↑close
• Hypernyms: ↑belonging
• Hyponyms: ↑togetherness
2. the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
• Syn: ↑stuffiness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑stuffy (for: ↑stuffiness)
• Hypernyms: ↑quality
3. the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance
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the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action
• Syn: ↑nearness
• Hypernyms: ↑distance
• Hyponyms: ↑proximity, ↑propinquity, ↑adjacency, ↑contiguity, ↑contiguousness
4. extreme stinginess
• Syn:
↑meanness, ↑minginess, ↑niggardliness, ↑niggardness, ↑parsimony, ↑parsimoniousness, ↑tightness, ↑tightfistedness
• Derivationally related forms:
↑close, ↑tightfisted (for: ↑tightfistedness), ↑tight (for: ↑tightness), ↑parsimonious (for: ↑parsimoniousness), ↑parsimonious (for: ↑parsimony), ↑niggardly (for: ↑niggardliness), ↑mingy (for: ↑minginess), ↑mean (for: ↑meanness)
• Hypernyms: ↑stinginess
• Hyponyms: ↑pettiness, ↑littleness, ↑smallness, ↑miserliness
5. characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
• Syn: ↑secretiveness
• Ant: ↑openness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑secretive (for: ↑secretiveness), ↑close
• Hypernyms: ↑unsociability, ↑unsociableness
• Hyponyms: ↑furtiveness, ↑sneakiness, ↑stealthiness
6. close or warm friendship
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the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy
• Syn: ↑familiarity, ↑intimacy
• Derivationally related forms: ↑familiar (for: ↑familiarity)
• Hypernyms: ↑friendliness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.