closeness
1. a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
- 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
- the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action
• Syn:
nearness
• Ant:
farness (for: nearness)
• Derivationally related forms:
close, near (for: 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
- 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
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