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closenessnoun the practice or habit of keeping secrets or keeping one's affairs secretwe tried to penetrate her strange closeness about her domestic life secrecy, secretiveness confidentiality, privacydiscreetness, discretion, prudencecircumspection, warinessreserve, reticence, silence, taciturnityfurtiveness, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, underhandednessconcealment, covertness, stealth, subterfuge candor, frankness, honesty, opennessimprudence, indiscretion the quality or practice of being overly sparing with moneyrebelled against his parents' closeness with his allowance cheapness, cheeseparing, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony, penny-pinching, penuriousness, pinching, stinginess, tightfistedness, tightness conserving, economizing, economy, frugality, husbandry, providence, scrimping, skimping, thriftconservation, savinghusbanding, managing bountifulness, bounty, generosity, largesse(also largess), liberality, openhandedness, openheartedness, philanthropy, unselfishnessextravagance, lavishnessdissipation, improvidence, prodigality, squandering, wastefulness the quality or state of being very accuratethe body was too decomposed to estimate the time of death with any great closeness accuracy, accurateness, delicacy, exactitude, exactness, fineness, nicety, perfection, preciseness, precision, rigor, rigorousness, ultraprecision, veracity correctness, fidelity, rightness, strictness, truthdefiniteness, definitiveness, definitude, determinacysubtletycare, carefulness, fastidiousness, meticulousness, persnicketiness coarseness, impreciseness, imprecision, inaccuracy, inexactitude, inexactness, roughness approximation, roundnessfalseness, falsity, incorrectness, wrongnesscarelessness, guesswork, loosenessindefiniteness, vagueness the state of being in a very personal or private relationshipthe closeness of their relationship was a matter of intense speculation among their coworkers belonging, chumminess, familiarity, inseparability, intimacy, nearness immediacyaffinity, kinshipcommitment, devotedness, devotionaffection, attachment, fondness, love, passionconstancy, faithfulness, fidelityamity, fellowship, friendship, goodwillaffability, conviviality, cordiality, genialitymutualitycliquishness, clubbiness distance aloofness, coldness, coolness, remoteness, reserve the state or condition of being nearwe were surprised by the closeness of everything to our downtown loft strict attentiveness to what one is doinghow much you get out of the sermon will depend on the closeness with which you listen to it care, carefulness, conscientiousness, heed, heedfulness, meticulosity, meticulousness, pains, scrupulousness advertence, advertency, attention, concentration, focus, observance, observationalertness, mindfulness, vigilance, watchfulnessdutifulness, irreproachability, irreproachableness, punctiliousness, responsibilitybother, effort, painstaking, troubleexactness, particularity, precision heedlessness, inattentiveness, negligence inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inobservance |