Synonyms for closeness
close·ness

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1. closenessnoun

   The state of being physically close

   Synonyms:
   proximity, nearness

2. closenessnoun

   The state of being friends

   Synonyms:
   intimacy

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1. closeness, intimacynoun

   a feeling of being intimate and belonging together

   "their closeness grew as the night wore on"

   Synonyms:
   affaire, nearness, parsimoniousness, amour, stuffiness, affair, niggardliness, liaison, tightfistedness, involvement, familiarity, secretiveness, minginess, tightness, intimacy, meanness, niggardness, parsimony

   Antonyms:
   nakedness, openness

2. stuffiness, closenessnoun

   the quality of being close and poorly ventilated

   Synonyms:
   intimacy, tightness, nearness, niggardness, minginess, tightfistedness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, stuffiness, secretiveness, familiarity, stodginess, niggardliness, meanness

   Antonyms:
   openness, nakedness

3. nearness, closenessnoun

   the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance

   "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action"

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

   Antonyms:
   nakedness, openness

4. meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closenessnoun

   extreme stinginess

   Synonyms:
   nearness, tautness, parsimoniousness, thrift, penny-pinching, constriction, parsimony, stringency, stuffiness, niggardliness, denseness, concentration, tightfistedness, beastliness, familiarity, compactness, secretiveness, minginess, tightness, intimacy, meanness, niggardness, density

   Antonyms:
   nakedness, openness

5. closeness, secretivenessnoun

   characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)

   Synonyms:
   intimacy, tightness, nearness, secretiveness, niggardliness, minginess, tightfistedness, parsimony, familiarity, stuffiness, parsimoniousness, secrecy, niggardness, silence, meanness

   Antonyms:
   nakedness, openness

6. familiarity, intimacy, closenessnoun

   close or warm friendship

   "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"

   Synonyms:
   conversance, affaire, conversancy, parsimoniousness, amour, impropriety, casualness, meanness, liberty, niggardliness, liaison, nearness, affair, involvement, acquaintance, familiarity, tightfistedness, secretiveness, minginess, stuffiness, tightness, intimacy, indecorum, niggardness, parsimony

   Antonyms:
   nakedness, openness

Matched Categories

1. • Distance
   • Friendliness
   • Quality
   • Unsociability

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1. closenessnoun

   Synonyms:
   nearness, proximity, adjacency, density, compactness, intimacy, reticence, secretiveness, parsimony, stinginess, illiberality, penuriousness

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1. List of paraphrases for "closeness":

   proximity, rapprochement, vicinity, intimacy, approximation

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1. Elizabeth Ochoa:

   Every person has different levels of comfort with closeness and distance to each other, if both people are comfortable with living apart, it can work well—but if there is a mismatch, based on fears about abandonment, trust, or fidelity, then living apart will strain the relationship.

2. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2:

   I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

3. Tom Jones:

   He was born in the Southern states and was influenced by Black gospel singers there, he couldn’t understand how I had so much gospel in me, because that’s what he related to. You see, Elvis Presley was really a gospel singer. And he heard that in me, and in Vegas, we would be up at night singing gospel songs. I would mostly listen because he knew more gospel songs than I did. We definitely had a closeness.

4. Carrie Fisher:

   You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

5. Mike Schur:

   Part of the story of the premiere is that this team doesn't work together anymore, and she feels like she needs them back to do this final big project, the closeness of this group of people is fraying at the edges just because people's lives are taking them in different directions, and that culminates in the series finale.