'Closeness' definitions:
Definition of 'Closeness'
From: GCIDE
- Closeness \Close"ness\, n. The state of being close. [1913 Webster]
- Half stifled by the closeness of the room. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- An affectation of closeness and covetousness. --Addison.
- Syn: Narrowness; oppressiveness; strictness; secrecy; compactness; conciseness; nearness; intimacy; tightness; stinginess; literalness. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'closeness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- THI,
- thickness,
- tie,
- tie-in,
- tight purse strings,
- tight squeeze,
- tightfistedness,
- tightness,
- uncommunicativeness,
- unconversableness,
- ungenerosity,
- union,
- unsociability,
- vicinage,
- vicinity,
- viscidity,
- viscosity,
- viscousness
Words containing 'Closeness'
- Close,
- Closed,
- Closely,
- Closing,
- To close on,
- To close with,
- close down,
- close in,
- close off,
- close out,
- close to,
- close up,
- closed in,
- closing off,
- closed closed inpredicate,
- A closed sea,
- Close borough,
- Close breeding,
- Close communion,
- Close corporation,
- Close fertilization,
- Close harmony,
- Close reef,
- Close time,
- Close to the wind,
- Close vowel,
- Closed chain,
- Letters close,
- To close upon,
- To close with the land,
- at close range,
- bank closing,
- close at hand,
- close call,
- close confining,
- close order,
- close quarters,
- close set,
- close shave,
- close support,
- close together,
- closed book,
- closed circuit,
- closed corporation,
- closed couplet,
- closed curve,
- closed fracture,
- closed gentian,
- closed interval,
- closed loop,
- closed minded,
- closed primary,
- closed session,
- closed shop,
- closed universe,
- closely knit,
- closing curtain,
- closing price,
- closing time,
- come close,
- draw close,
- hold close,
- plant closing,
- Close-banded,
- Close-barred,
- Close-bodied,
- Close-fights,
- Close-stool,
- Close-tongued,
- Couple-close,
- Couple-closes,
- Still-closing,
- bringing close together,
- close supporting fire,
- close-fitting,
- close-grained,
- close-hauled,
- close-knit,
- close-minded,
- close-packed,
- close-set,
- closed-captioned,
- closed-chain,
- closed-circuit,
- closed-door,
- closed-minded,
- closed-ring,
- closely held corporation,
- closely-held,
- closely-knit,
- real estate closing,
- simple closed curve,
- close-order drill,
- close-quarter fighting,
- closed-angle glaucoma,
- closed-circuit television,
- closed-class word,
- closed-end fund,
- closed-heart surgery,
- closed-loop system,
- closed-end investment company,
- involute closely coiled so that the axis is obscured