| NOUN | feeling | closeness, intimacy | a feeling of being intimate and belonging together |
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| attribute | closeness, stuffiness | the quality of being close and poorly ventilated | |
| attribute | closeness, nearness | the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance | |
| attribute | closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness | extreme / extreme stinginess | |
| attribute | closeness, secretiveness | characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes) | |
| attribute | closeness, familiarity, intimacy | close or warm friendship |
| Sounds | klow'snihs | |
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| Rhymes | abyss ... worthiness: 194 rhymes with ihs... | |
| Meaning | A feeling of being intimate and belonging together. | |
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| Example | "their closeness grew as the night wore on" | |
| Synonym | intimacy | |
| Narrower | togetherness | affectionate closeness / closeness |
| Broader | belonging | happiness felt in a secure relationship |
| Spanish | cercanía, intimidad, proximidad | |
| Catalan | intimitat, proximitat | |
| Adjectives | close | close in relevance or relationship |
| Meaning | The quality of being close and poorly ventilated. | |
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| Synonym | stuffiness | |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
| Meaning | The spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance. | |
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| Example | "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action" | |
| Synonym | nearness | |
| Narrower | adjacency, contiguity, contiguousness | The attribute of being so near as to be touching |
| proximity, propinquity | The property of being close together | |
| Broader | distance | The property created by the space between two objects or points |
| Opposite | farness, remoteness, farawayness | The property of being remote |
| Spanish | aproximación, cercanía, proximidad, vecindad | |
| Catalan | proximitat, rodalies, voltants | |
| Adjectives | close | at or within a short / short distance in space or time or having elements near each other |
| close | not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances | |
| Meaning | extreme / extreme stinginess. | |
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| Synonyms | meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness | |
| Narrower | miserliness | Total lack of generosity / generosity with money |
| pettiness, littleness, smallness | lack of generosity / generosity in trifling matters | |
| Broader | stinginess | A lack of generosity / generosity |
| Spanish | mezquindad | |
| Catalan | mesquinesa | |
| Adjectives | close | giving or spending with reluctance |
| Meaning | Characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes). | |
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| Synonym | secretiveness | |
| Narrower | furtiveness, sneakiness, stealthiness | A disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously |
| Broader | unsociability, unsociableness | An unsociable disposition |
| Opposite | openness, nakedness | Characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes) |
| Spanish | reserva | |
| Catalan | reserva | |
| Adjectives | close | inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information |
| Meaning | Close or warm friendship. | |
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| Synonyms | familiarity, intimacy | |
| Broader | friendliness | A friendly disposition |
| Spanish | confianza, familiaridad, franqueza, intimidad | |
| Catalan | confiança, familiaritat, franquesa, intimitat | |
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