closeness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: closeness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for closeness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
closeness n a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on" Synonym(s): closeness, intimacy the quality of being close and poorly ventilated Synonym(s): stuffiness, closeness the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action" Synonym(s): nearness, closeness Antonym(s): farawayness, farness, remoteness extreme stinginess Synonym(s): meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes) Synonym(s): closeness, secretiveness Antonym(s): nakedness, openness close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" Synonym(s): familiarity, intimacy, closeness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Closeness \Close"ness\, n. The state of being close. Half stifled by the closeness of the room. --Swift. We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius. --Bacon. An affectation of closeness and covetousness. --Addison. Syn: Narrowness; oppressiveness; strictness; secrecy; compactness; conciseness; nearness; intimacy; tightness; stinginess; literalness.