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say it: KLOH-snis
closeness is a noun meaning "a feeling of being intimate and belonging together". It is pronounced /ˈkloʊsnɪs/ — KLOH-snis. It carries 6 recorded senses.
a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
“their closeness grew as the night wore on”
the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
extreme stinginess
characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
close or warm friendship
“the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for closeness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.