closeness

1. 1.

   a feeling of being intimate and belonging together

   “their closeness grew as the night wore on”

   Synonymsintimacy

   Broaderbelonging

   Narrowertogetherness
2. 2.

   the quality of being close and poorly ventilated

   Synonymsstuffiness

   Broaderquality
3. 3.

   the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance

   “the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action”

   Synonymsnearness

   Broaderdistance

   Narrowerproximityadjacency
4. 4.

   extreme stinginess

   Synonymsmeannessminginessniggardlinessniggardnessparsimonyparsimoniousnesstightnesstightfistedness

   Broaderstinginess

   Narrowerpettinessmiserliness
5. 5.

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

   Synonymssecretiveness

   Antonymsopenness

   Broaderunsociability

   Narrowerfurtiveness
6. 6.

   close or warm friendship

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

   Synonymsfamiliarityintimacy

   Broaderfriendliness

Other forms of closeness

plural

closenesses·

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.

Questions about closeness

What does closeness mean?

closeness means "a feeling of being intimate and belonging together". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in closeness?

closeness has 2 syllables: close-ness. The stress falls on "close". In IPA it is /ˈkloʊsnɪs/.

What is another word for closeness?

Close synonyms include intimacy, stuffiness, nearness, meanness, minginess. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of closeness?

The recorded antonyms are openness.

Is closeness a common word?

closeness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.