closeness

Meanings

Plural: closenesses

Noun

• a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
  • "their closeness grew as the night wore on"
• the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
• the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance
  • "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action"
• extreme stinginess
• characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
• close or warm friendship
• The state of being close (all senses)
• The state of being friends
• The state of being mean or stingy
• The state of being secretive
• The shortest path between two vertices in a graph
• Solitude, seclusion

Synonyms

familiarity, intimacy, meanness, minginess, nearness, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, proximity, secretiveness, stuffiness, tightfistedness, tightness

Antonyms

farness, openness