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(noun) characterized by a lack of openness esp about one's actions or purposes |
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Synonyms: secretiveness |
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Related Words: furtiveness, sneakiness, stealthiness, unsociability, unsociableness |
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Antonyms: openness |
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(noun) a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on" |
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Synonyms: intimacy |
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Related Words: belonging, togetherness |
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(noun) the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action" |
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Synonyms: nearness |
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Related Words: adjacency, contiguity, contiguousness, distance, propinquity, proximity |
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(noun) close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" |
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Synonyms: familiarity, intimacy |
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Related Words: camaraderie, friendliness, good fellowship |
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(noun) extreme stinginess |
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Synonyms: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
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Related Words: miserliness, pettiness, stinginess |
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