Noun: closeness klows-nus- A feeling of being intimate and belonging together
"their closeness grew as the night wore on"; - intimacy - The quality of being close and poorly ventilated
- stuffiness - The property of being close together
"the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action"; - proximity, propinquity, nearness - Extreme stinginess
- meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness - Characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
- secretiveness - Close or warm friendship
"the absence of fences created a mysterious closeness in which no one knew privacy"; - familiarity, intimacy
Type of: belonging, distance, friendliness, quality, stinginess [informal], unsociability, unsociableness Antonym: nakedness, remoteness Encyclopedia: Closeness |