nearness

Questions about nearness

What does nearness mean?

nearness means "the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance".

How many syllables are in nearness?

nearness has 3 syllables and divides as ne-ar-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for nearness?

Close synonyms include closeness. 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 nearness?

The recorded antonyms are farness.

Is nearness a common word?

nearness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.