familiarity, intimacy, closeness
(noun) close or warm friendship; “the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy”
closeness, secretiveness
(noun) characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one’s actions or purposes)
meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness
(noun) extreme stinginess
nearness, closeness
(noun) the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; “the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action”
stuffiness, closeness
(noun) the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
closeness, intimacy
(noun) a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; “their closeness grew as the night wore on”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
closeness (usually uncountable, plural closenesses)
The state of being close (all senses)
The state of being friends
The state of being mean or stingy
The state of being secretive
(mathematics) The shortest path between two vertices in a graph
(archaic) Solitude, seclusion
• (physical): proximity, nearness
• (friends): intimacy
• (stingy)
• (secretive)
Source: Wiktionary
Close"ness, n.
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 May 2024
(noun) a system of economic regulation: wages and interest are tied to the cost-of-living index in order to reduce the effects of inflation
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
