Nearness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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