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How to pronounce closeness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms familiarity, intimacy
Type of friendliness
Type Words
Synonyms secretiveness
Type of unsociableness, unsociability
Has types stealthiness, furtiveness, sneakiness
Derivation close
Type Words
Synonyms intimacy
Type of belonging
Has types togetherness
Derivation close


their closeness grew as the night wore on.
Type Words
Synonyms stuffiness
Type of quality
Type Words
Synonyms meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness
Type of stinginess
Has types pettiness, littleness, miserliness, smallness
Derivation close
Type Words
Synonyms nearness
Type of distance
Has types propinquity, contiguity, contiguousness, adjacency, proximity
Derivation close


the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action.

Examples of closeness

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He is distressed by Dean's apparent closeness to Suzie and is obviously jealous.
From the theepochtimes.com
This closeness is so intense that one is not able to control one's own emotions.
From the nzcatholic.org.nz
They value strong family ties and use the dinner table to foster that closeness.
From the courier-journal.com
He says that's why he focuses on the closeness that comes from playing together.
From the kentucky.com
He has a wonderful personality, a sense of humor, and a closeness to his family.
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They were also asked about feelings of loneliness and closeness to other people.
From the sciencedaily.com
She tries to describe the feeling for those of us who don't feel that closeness.
From the denverpost.com
At the National Security Council, he exaggerated his closeness to the President.
From the time.com
Accuracy describes the closeness of arrows to the bullseye at the target center.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • A feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on"
  • Stuffiness: the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
  • Nearness: the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action"
  • Meanness: extreme stinginess
  • Characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
  • Familiarity: close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"
  • Within graph theory and network analysis, there are various measures of the centrality of a vertex within a graph that determine the relative importance of a vertex within the graph (for example, how important a person is within a social network, or, in the theory of space syntax, how important ...
  • In topology and related areas in mathematics closeness is one of the basic concepts in a topological space. Intuitively we say two sets are close if they are arbitrarily near to each other. ...
  • The state of being physically close; The state of being friends; The state of being mean or stingy; The state of being secretive; The shortest path between two vertices in a graph