closeness 音标拼音: [kl'osnɪs]
n . 接近,紧密
接近,紧密
closeness n 1 :
a feeling of being intimate and belonging together ; "
their closeness grew as the night wore on " [
synonym : {
closeness },
{
intimacy }]
2 :
the quality of being close and poorly ventilated [
synonym :
{
stuffiness }, {
closeness }]
3 :
the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance ; "
the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action " [
synonym : {
nearness }, {
closeness }] [
ant : {
farawayness },
{
farness }, {
remoteness }]
4 :
extreme stinginess [
synonym : {
meanness }, {
minginess },
{
niggardliness }, {
niggardness }, {
parsimony },
{
parsimoniousness }, {
tightness }, {
tightfistedness },
{
closeness }]
5 :
characterized by a lack of openness (
especially about one '
s actions or purposes ) [
synonym : {
closeness }, {
secretiveness }]
[
ant : {
nakedness }, {
openness }]
6 :
close or warm friendship ; "
the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy " [
synonym :
{
familiarity }, {
intimacy }, {
closeness }]
Closeness \
Close "
ness \,
n .
The state of being close .
[
1913 Webster ]
Half stifled by the closeness of the room . --
Swift .
[
1913 Webster ]
We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus ,
nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius .
--
Bacon .
[
1913 Webster ]
An affectation of closeness and covetousness .
--
Addison .
Syn :
Narrowness ;
oppressiveness ;
strictness ;
secrecy ;
compactness ;
conciseness ;
nearness ;
intimacy ;
tightness ;
stinginess ;
literalness .
[
1913 Webster ]
175 Moby Thesaurus words for "
closeness ":
THI ,
accord ,
accordance ,
addition ,
adjunct ,
affairs ,
affiliation ,
affinity ,
agreement ,
airlessness ,
airtight secrecy ,
alikeness ,
alliance ,
analogy ,
aping ,
approach ,
approximation ,
assemblage ,
assimilation ,
association ,
avarice ,
bond ,
cheapness ,
chumminess ,
close secrecy ,
closefistedness ,
combination ,
community ,
compactness ,
comparability ,
comparison ,
concealment ,
confinement ,
confines ,
conformity ,
congestedness ,
congestion ,
connectedness ,
connection ,
consistence ,
consistency ,
contiguity ,
contrariety ,
convergence ,
copying ,
correspondence ,
crowdedness ,
crypticness ,
dealings ,
deduction ,
denseness ,
density ,
discreetness ,
discretion ,
disjunction ,
environs ,
evasion ,
evasiveness ,
familiarity ,
filiation ,
firmness ,
foreground ,
gluiness ,
hair ,
hairbreadth ,
hairsbreadth ,
hardfistedness ,
hardness ,
hiddenness ,
hoarding ,
homology ,
hugger -
mugger ,
hugger -
muggery ,
humidity ,
humidness ,
identity ,
illiberality ,
imitation ,
immediacy ,
immediate foreground ,
impenetrability ,
impermeability ,
imporosity ,
incapaciousness ,
incommodiousness ,
incompressibility ,
indisposition to speak ,
inseparableness ,
intercourse ,
intimacy ,
intimate acquaintance ,
jammedness ,
junction ,
lack of meaning ,
lack of message ,
liaison ,
likeness ,
likening ,
limitation ,
link ,
linkage ,
linking ,
mateyness ,
meaninglessness ,
metaphor ,
mimicking ,
miserliness ,
mugginess ,
mutual attraction ,
narrow gauge ,
narrowness ,
nearness ,
neighborhood ,
nighness ,
oppression ,
oppressiveness ,
palliness ,
parallelism ,
parity ,
penny -
pinching ,
precinct ,
propinquity ,
proximity ,
purlieus ,
rapport ,
relatedness ,
relation ,
relations ,
relationship ,
relative density ,
resemblance ,
restrictedness ,
restriction ,
sameness ,
secrecy ,
secretiveness ,
secretness ,
semblance ,
similarity ,
simile ,
similitude ,
simulation ,
slenderness ,
solidity ,
solidness ,
special affinity ,
specific gravity ,
spissitude ,
stickiness ,
stinginess ,
straitness ,
strictness ,
stuffiness ,
subterfuge ,
swelter ,
sympathy ,
temperature -
humidity index ,
the dark ,
thickness ,
tie ,
tie -
in ,
tight purse strings ,
tight squeeze ,
tightfistedness ,
tightness ,
uncommunicativeness ,
unconversableness ,
ungenerosity ,
union ,
unsociability ,
vicinage ,
vicinity ,
viscidity ,
viscosity ,
viscousness
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