n 1: a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their
closeness grew as the night wore on" [syn: intimacy]
2: the spatial property resulting from a relatively small
distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into
action" [syn: nearness] [ant: farness]
3: extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness]
4: characterized by a lack of openness esp about one's actions
or purposes [syn: secretiveness] [ant: openness]
5: close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a
mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" [syn: familiarity, intimacy]