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• n  a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
  their closeness grew as the night wore on
• n  the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
• n  the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance
  the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action
• n  extreme stinginess
• n  characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
• n  close or warm friendship

• intimacy
• stuffiness
• nearness
• meanness
• minginess
• niggardliness
• niggardness
• parsimony
• parsimoniousness
• tightness
• tightfistedness
• secretiveness
• familiarity

• farness
• openness

News & Articles

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• Man: 3-D movie changed my sight for the better
  Trees once looked like green panels for Bruce Bridgeman. He'd have to move his head to gauge the relative closeness of objects.
  June 15, 2013 - CNN
• Man: 3-D movie improved my vision
  Trees once looked like green panels for Bruce Bridgeman. He'd have to move his head to gauge the relative closeness of objects.
  June 15, 2013 - ABC 15 Phoenix
• TV Picks: 'Futurama,' 'The Hustle,' child activists, 'Wilfred'
  Futurama(Comedy Central, Wednesdays). Science fiction and comedy are "like that." (Writer crosses fingers to indicate closeness.) Each takes emerging facts to their extreme, often absurd conclusions; both are fundamentally philosophical — though each has time for exhilarating idiocy — and in imagining what might be, each takes the measure of what is. "1984" was about "1948," and "Brave New ...
  June 14, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Pope Benedict XVI in International Herald Tribune
  I assure you ...... of my closeness at this time, as you prepare to celebrate the great deeds of the Almighty,Benedict said.
• John Ensign in Washington Post
  Our families were close,Ensign said. "That closeness put me into situations which led to my inappropriate behavior. We caused deep pain to both families and for that I am sorry."