Definition of closeness

Overview of noun closeness

The noun closeness has 6 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. closeness, intimacy

(a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on")

2. stuffiness, closeness

(the quality of being close and poorly ventilated)

3. nearness, closeness

(the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action")

4. meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness

(extreme stinginess)

5. closeness, secretiveness

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

6. familiarity, intimacy, closeness

(close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy")