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• n  the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance

• Her nearness is like vampire heroin; his love for her has become his religion and his sin.
• A nice-looking guy with an easy enthusiasm the camera loves, he described his nearness to the bears as a cross-species symbiosis, when in fact he was courting the fate he .
• Their selection depended largely on their nearness to the main broadcasting office in Manhattan.

• closeness

• farness

News & Articles

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• Mahan in prime position for his first major title
  Hunter Mahan's face was reddened by the sun, his voice rubbed rough by a week of talking about Merion, his body tensed by the nearness of a first major championship.
  June 16, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Quotes

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• Pope Benedict XVI in FOXNews
  The pope is always close to me through his writings: I hear him and I see him speaking, so I can keep up a continuous dialogue with him,Benedict said. "This nearness to him isn't limited to words and texts, because behind the texts I hear...
• Carmen Callil in Guardian Unlimited
  Némirovsky has a particular talent,wrote Callil, "a nearness to her readers, so that you almost feel the flesh of the characters she creates, however vile, rapacious and idiotic they may be. This is where she is irresistible - addictive -...
• Pope Paul VI in Catholic News Agency
  Christmas,the Pope concluded, "is the privileged opportunity to contemplate the meaning and value of our existence. The nearness of this solemnity helps us to reflect, on the one hand, on the dramatic nature of a history in which human beings,...