Definition for Nearness:

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

Synonyms for Nearness:

• n.

  •
  • admiration,
  • friendship,
  • affection.
  •
  • convergence,
  • coming.
  •
  • distance.
  •attribute (noun)
  • nearness,
  • closeness.
  •chumminess (noun)
  • folksinesses,
  • neighborlinesses.
  •contact (noun)
  • contiguity,
  • contiguities,
  • Taction.
  •familiarity (noun)
  • Familiarity.
  •friendship (noun)
  • chumminess.
  •front (noun)
  • foreground.
  •imminence (noun)
  • drawing nears,
  • re-aching,
  • nearings,
  • re aching.
  •parity (noun)
  • similitude,
  • equal terms,
  • Adequation,
  • Coequality.
  •presence (noun)
  • immediate circle.
  •relationship (noun)
  • de-pendencies,
  • tiein,
  • inter-relation,
  • pro-portion,
  • ex change,
  • inter connections,
  • inter connection,
  • pro portions,
  • de pendencies,
  • inter relationship,
  • pro-portions,
  • inter relations,
  • pro portion,
  • inter relationships,
  • de-pendency,
  • tieup,
  • inter relation,
  • ex changes,
  • de pendency,
  • inter-relations.
  •touching (noun)
  • contact.
  •vicinity (noun)
  • arounds,
  • sur-roundings,
  • pretty nears,
  • sur roundings.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • convenience,
  • imminence,
  • disjunction.
  •
  • length.

Antonyms for Nearness:

• n.

  • attribute
    farness.
  • nearness in feeling
    enmity, hatred, hate.
  • nearness in time or space
    difference, unlikeness, remoteness, distance, dissimilarity.
  • Other antonyms:
    coldness, aloofness, coolness, error, variation, reserve.

Nearness Sentence Examples:

• David caught her hands in his, regardless of the ominous bandages they held, and said, with tender admiration and reproach in his voice: You wouldn't marry me when I asked you this summer, fearing you would be a burden to me; but now you want to share hardship and danger with me, and support me by the knowledge of your nearness.

• And the spell of her nearness, her youth, her beauty, naturally held him.

Homophones for Nearness:

• narrowing, nonharmonic, neuronic, near miss, narrowness.

Hypernym for Nearness:

• n.

  • attribute
    adjacency, proximity, propinquity, contiguousness, contiguity.

Hyponym for Nearness:

• n.

  • attribute
    distance.