noun
- A feeling of being intimate and belonging together.
- usage: "their closeness grew as the night wore on"
- synonyms: intimacy
- The quality of being close and poorly ventilated.
- synonyms: stuffiness
- The spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance.
- usage: "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action"
- synonyms: nearness
- Extreme stinginess.
- synonyms: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness
- Characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes.
- synonyms: secretiveness
- Close or warm friendship.
- usage: "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"
- synonyms: familiarity, intimacy
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