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Related / Similar Words: familiarity, intimacy, secretiveness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, nearness

 

Definition:
  • close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy";
  • characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one''s actions or purposes);
  • extreme stinginess;
  • the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action";
  • a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on";

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    Hyponyms: furtiveness, sneakiness, stealthiness, pettiness, miserliness, proximity, propinquity, adjacency, contiguity, contiguousness, togetherness

     
     
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