Nearness

Definition: Nearness

Nearness

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nearness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonym: Nearness

Nearness

Noun: nearness; Adjective: proximity, propinquity; vicinity, vicinage; neighborhood, adjacency; contiguity.

Crosswords: Nearness

Books

• Birthplace: Moving into Nearness (reference)

• Calculus & Mathematica: Approximations: Measuring Nearness (reference)

• Christian Households: The Sanctification of Nearness (reference)

• Nearness of You: Students & Teachers Writing On-Line (reference)

• The Nearness of the Way You Look Tonight (Adventures in Poetry) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Nearness of You (reference)

• The Nearness of You (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

There is no bravery which does not shudder and feel the nearness of anguish

The very nearness of the fire but cooled our ardor

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Nearness to the U.S. has resulted in a higher percentage of irrigated lands, advanced technology and thus more productivity for the northern Mexican states. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "nearness": approximation nearness. Additional references.

Albanian

afërsi (adjacency, closeness, contiguity, familiarity, imminence, impendence, locality, neighborship, neighbourship, propinquity, proximity, vicinity). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مودة (attachment, bonhomie, cordiality, endearment, fellowship, friendship, intimacy, love), ‏قرب (approach, beside, bring closer, close to, closeness, near, next to, prefer, proximity, towards, vicinity), ‏صحة (accuracy, authenticity, exactitude, fidelity, fitness, health, legitimacy, nicety, purity, soundness, trustiness, truth, validity, veracity), ‏صداقة حميمة (camaraderie, intimacy), ‏جوار (neighborhood, neighbourhood, proximity, vicinity), ‏إلفة (gregariousness), ‏دقيق (accurate, careful, close, delicate, elaborate, exact, express, farina, fine, flour, inappreciable, infinitesimal, intangible, just, keen, mathematical, meal, nice, painstaking, particular, pernickety, precise, punctilious, punctual, rigorous, scrupulous, searching, sharp, sound, specific, straightforward, strict, ticklish, tiny, touchy, tricky, true, veracious). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съседство (adjacency, neighborhood, neighborship, neighbourhood, neighbourship, proximity), стиснатост (cheeseparing, parsimony), точност (accuracy, delicacy, distinctness, exactitude, exactness, expedition, fidelity, literality, minuteness, neatness, nicety, particularity, precision, promptitude, punctuality, rigor, rigour, strictness), близост (adjacency, alliance, appetence, appetency, approach, association, closeness, immediacy, impendence, neighborhood, neighbourhood, propinquity, proximity, reach, vicinity), пестеливост (economy, frugality, husbandry, parsimony, thrift, thriftiness), интимност (familiarity, informality, intimacy, intimity, inwardness, privacy). (various references)

Czech

příbuznost (congeniality), lakota (avarice, greed, meanness, miserliness), blízkost (closeness, neighborhood, neighbourhood, propinquity, proximity, vicinity). (various references)

Danish

nærhed (proximity). (various references)

Dutch

nabijheid (proximity, vicinity), nabýheid (neighbourhood, proximity, vicinity). (various references)

Esperanto

proksimeco (proximity). (various references)

Finnish

läheisyys (neighbourhood, vicinity). (various references)

French

proximité, intimité, fidélité, exactitude. (various references)

German

nähe (adjacencies, closeness, contiguousness, neighborhood, neighbourhood, propinquity, proximity, sew, sewing, stitch, vicinage, vicinity). (various references)

Greek 

εγγύτησ (closeness, imminence, propinquity, proximateness, proximity, vicinity), εγγύτητα (closeness, propinquity, proximateness, proximity, vicinity). (various references)

Hebrew 

קרוב (approximation, at hand, bringing near, close, drawing near, near, next, nigh, proximity), קרבות (affinity, closeness, frienship, proximity, relationship). (various references)

Hungarian

szomszédosság (adjacency, contiguity), rokoni közelség, közelség (closeness, imminence, propinquity, proximity, vicinity), fösvénység (avarice, miserliness, parsimony), baráti közelség. (various references)

Indonesian

kedekatan (closeness, too close), dekatnya. (various references)

Italian

vicinanza (adjacency, closeness, neighborhood, neighbourhood, outskirts, propinquity, proximity, vicinity), prossimit� (closeness, neighbor, neighbour, proximity), intimit� (deep, hearth, innermost, intimacy, intimate friends, privacy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"近 (nearby, proximity, soon), 近近 (before long), 近々 (before long), 真近かに (proximity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

き�"き�" (before long, merely, no more than), まぢか (nearby, proximity, soon), まじかに (proximity), ちかぢか (before long). (various references)

Korean 

지근. (various references)

Manx

pitteogys (illiberality, inhospitality, parsimony, penuriousness), peajeogys (close-fistedness, closeness, miserliness, narrowness, parsimony, tightness, tightness in money), niessid (contiguity, proximity), faggysaght (adjacency). (various references)

Pig Latin

earnessnay.(various references)

Polish

bliskość (proximity). (various references)

Portuguese

proximidade (closeness, imminence, impendence, neighborhood, neighborship, neighbourhood, neighbourship, proximity, vicinity), intimidade (familiarity, intimacy, intimity, inwardness, privacy), fidelidade (abidance, accuracy, adherence, adhesion, allegiance, faithfulness, loyalty, trustiness), familiaridade (conversance, familiarity), exatidão (accuracy, closeness, exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, literalism, nicety, particularity, precision, propriety, punctuality). (various references)

Romanian

vecinãtate (adjacency, closeness, limitation, neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity), apropiere (approach, approximation, closeness, coming, kindred, neighbor, neighborhood, neighbour, neighbourhood, propinquity, proximity, vicinity). (various references)

Russian 

близость (closeness, congeniality, consanguinity, dearness, impendence, neighborhood, neighbourhood, propinquity, proximity, togetherness, vicinity). (various references)

Scottish

dlùths (closeness, for dlùthais). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prisnost (familiarity, intimacy, intimity, rapport), blizina (neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinage, vicinity), bliskost (closeness, imminence, propinquity, vicinity). (various references)

Spanish

proximidad (adjacency, approximation, closeness, proximity), lo cercano, intimidad (closeness, familiarity, informality, intimacy, intimity, privacy), inminencia (imminence, impendence), cercanía (closeness, propinquity). (various references)

Swedish

närhet (closeness, propinquity, proximity, vicinity). (various references)

Thai

การเข้าใกล้. (various references)

Turkish

yakınlık (adjacency, affinity, approximation, closeness, connection, connexion, contiguity, familiarity, immediacy, imminence, intimacy, kinship, propinquity, proximity, relationship, terms), cimrilik (closeness, costiveness, illiberality, manginess, meanness, miserliness, parsimony, penury, sordidness, stinginess). (various references)

Ukrainian

близькість (appetency, closeness, contiguity, familiarity, neighborhood, neighborship, neighbourhood, neighbourship, nighness, propinquity, proximity). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trạng thái ở gần tính chi ly, tính keo kiệt (miseriliness, scrimpiness, sordidness, stinginess), tính chắt bóp. (various references)

Welsh

agosrwydd (proximity). (various references)

confinia, confinio, confinium, propinquitas, propinquitate, propinquitatis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "nearness": nearnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nearness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enardeces, Narjes, nearnesses, Nearnet, Necarne, Niarunas, reharness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ensnares, rennases.

-1 letter: ensnare, rennase.

-2 letters: erases, ranees, sarees, sarsen, sennas, snares, sneers.

-3 letters: arses, earns, eases, erase, ernes, erses, nares, nears, nenes, ranee, rases, saner, sanes, saree, sears, seers, senna, sensa, sense, seres, snare, sneer.

-4 letters: anes, ares, arse, earn, ears, ease, eras, erne, erns, eses, nans, near, nene, ness, rase, rees, sane, sans, sear, seas.

+1 letter: anserines, ensnarers.

+2 letters: barrenness, brazenness, cravenness, greensands, mannerless, nearnesses, ornateness, ranknesses, resonances, swanneries.

+3 letters: angrinesses, earnestness, enchantress, eternalness, franknesses, grandnesses, greenshanks, learnedness, menservants, neutralness, nonspeakers, profaneness, ranginesses, renaissance, renascences, reseasoning, screenlands, strangeness, transiences, unawareness, unharnessed, unharnesses, unnecessary, unreadiness.

+4 letters: androgeneses, androgenesis, apparentness, barrennesses, braininesses, brawninesses, brazennesses, consternates, contredanses, conversances, crankinesses, cravennesses, daringnesses, debonairness, enfranchises, graininesses, internalises, inwardnesses, mannerliness, narrownesses, nitrogenases, nonassertive, nonpasserine, nonreusables, ornatenesses, pensionaries, rancidnesses, randomnesses, ravenousness, reassignment, reinsurances, renaissances, strandedness, transiencies, unfairnesses, unwarinesses.