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HOME | Definition of nearness. (NEARNESS., Nearness.)


    Nearness \Near"ness\, n.
    The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various
    senses of the adjective.
    [1913 Webster]

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    nearness
    n : the spatial property resulting from a relatively small
    distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into
    action" [syn: closeness] [ant: farness]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    123 Moby Thesaurus words for "nearness":
    access, accession, accord, accordance, addition, adjunct, advance,
    advent, affairs, affiliation, affinity, afflux, affluxion,
    agreement, alikeness, alliance, analogy, aping, approach,
    approaching, appropinquation, approximation, appulse, assemblage,
    assimilation, association, avarice, bond, cheapness, chumminess,
    closefistedness, closeness, combination, coming, coming near,
    coming toward, community, comparability, comparison, confinement,
    conformity, connectedness, connection, contiguity, contrariety,
    copying, correspondence, crowdedness, dealings, deduction,
    disjunction, familiarity, filiation, flowing toward, forthcoming,
    hair, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, hardfistedness, hoarding,
    homology, identity, illiberality, imitation, imminence,
    incapaciousness, incommodiousness, inseparableness, intercourse,
    intimacy, intimate acquaintance, junction, liaison, likeness,
    likening, limitation, link, linkage, linking, mateyness, metaphor,
    mimicking, miserliness, mutual attraction, narrow gauge,
    narrowness, nearing, oncoming, palliness, parallelism, parity,
    penny-pinching, propinquity, proximation, proximity, rapport,
    relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, resemblance,
    restrictedness, restriction, sameness, semblance, similarity,
    simile, similitude, simulation, slenderness, special affinity,
    stinginess, straitness, strictness, sympathy, tie, tie-in,
    tight purse strings, tight squeeze, tightfistedness, tightness,
    ungenerosity, union

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0


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