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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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.

Syn. – Narrowness; oppressiveness; strictness; secrecy; compactness; conciseness; nearness; intimacy; tightness; stinginess; literalness.

, n.

The state of being shut, pressed together, or united. Hence according to the nature of the thing to which the word is applied.

Compactness; solidity; as the closeness of texture in wood or fossils.

Narrowness; straitness; as of a place.

Tightness in building, or in apartments; firmness of texture in cloth, &c.

Want of ventilation; applied to a close room, or to the air confined in it.

Confinement or retirement of a person; recluseness; solitude.

Reserve in intercourse; secrecy; privacy; caution.

Covetousness; penuriousness.

Connection; near union; intimacy, whether of friendship, or of interest; as the closeness of friendship, or of alliance.

10.

Pressure; urgency; variously applied; as the closeness of an agreement, or of debate; the closeness of a question or inquiry.

11.

Adherence to an original; as the closeness of a version.