Closeness
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English
Noun
Closeness (uncountable)- The state of being physically close
- The state of being friends
- The state of being mean or stingy
- The state of being secretive
- (mathematics) The shortest path between two vertices in a graph
Adjectives for Closeness
furtive; essential; unwinking.
Synonyms for Closeness
Thesaurus
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,
Etymology
close
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kləʊsnəs/
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