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1. A feeling of being intimate and belonging together
   "their closeness grew as the night wore on"
   - intimacy
    
2. The quality of being close and poorly ventilated
   - stuffiness
    
3. The spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance
   "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action"
   - nearness
    
4. Extreme stinginess
   - meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness
    
5. Characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
   - secretiveness
    
6. Close or warm friendship
   - familiarity, intimacy

Derived forms: closenesses

See also: close

Type of: belonging, distance, friendliness, quality, stinginess, unsociability, unsociableness

Antonym: openness

Encyclopedia: Closeness