closeness
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Noun[edit]
closeness (usually uncountable, plural closenesses)
- The state of being close (all senses)
- The state of being friends
- The state of being mean or stingy
- The state of being secretive
- (mathematics) The shortest path between two vertices in a graph
- (archaic) Solitude, seclusion
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
- I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated / To closeness and the bettering of my mind [...]
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proximity — see proximity
The state of being friends
The state of being mean or stingy
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solitude, seclusion
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