Word Meanings - NEARNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NEARNESS)

• Presence
• Nearness
• influence
• intercourse
• closeness
• Propinquity
• proximity
• contiguity
• adjacence
• Vicinity
• Juxtaposition
• neighborhood
• nearness

Related words: (words related to NEARNESS)

• PROPINQUITY
  1. Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity. 2. Nearness in time. Sir T. Browne. 3. Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity. Shak.
• INTERCOURSE
  A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
• PROXIMITY
  The quality or state of being next in time, place, causation, influence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood, or alliance. If he plead proximity of blood That empty title is with ease withstood. Dryden.
• NEIGHBORHOOD
  1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton. 2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which
• INFLUENCE
  Induction. Syn. -- Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige. (more info) 1. A flowing in or upon; influx. God hath his influence into the very essence of
• JUXTAPOSITION
  A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words. Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition. Glanvill. Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity. Hare.
• NEARNESS
  The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.
• ADJACENCE; ADJACENCY
  1. The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings. 2. That which is adjacent. Sir T. Browne.
• INFLUENCER
  One who, or that which, influences.
• VICINITY
  from vicus a row of houses, a village; akin to Gr. v a house, vi to enter, Goth. weihs town: cf. OF. vicinité. Cf. Diocese, Economy, 1. The quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness; propinquity; proximity; as, the value
• CLOSENESS
  The state of being close. Half stifled by the closeness of the room. Swift. We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius. Bacon. An affectation of closeness and covetousness. Addison. Syn.
• CONTIGUITY
  The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton.
• PRESENCE
  1. The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence. 2. The place in which one is present; the part of space within one's ken, call, influence, etc.; neighborhood without the intervention of anything
• OMNIPRESENCE
  Presence in every place at the same time; unbounded or universal presence; ubiquity. His omnipresence fills Land, sea, and air, and every kind that lives. Milton.
• MULTIPRESENCE
  The state or power of being multipresent. The multipresence of Christ's body. Bp. Hall.
• CONVICINITY
  Immediate vicinity; neighborhood. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton.
• TOTIPRESENCE
  Omnipresence. A. Tucker.
• OVERINFLUENCE
  To influence in an excessive degree; to have undue influence over.
• PLURIPRESENCE
  Presence in more places than one. Johnson.
• APPROPINQUITY
  Nearness; propinquity. J. Gregory.