Fromclose +‎-ness.

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /ˈkləʊs.nəs/
• (US)IPA^(key): /ˈkloʊs.nəs/

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• (General Australian)IPA^(key): /ˈkləʉs.nəs/
• Rhymes:-əʊsnəs

closeness (usuallyuncountable,pluralclosenesses)

1. The state of beingclose (all senses)
2. The state of beingfriends
3. The state of beingmean orstingy
4. The state of beingsecretive
5. (mathematics) The shortestpath between twovertices in agraph
6. (archaic)Solitude,seclusion
   • 1610–1611 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene ii]:

     I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated / Tocloseness and the bettering of my mind [...]

• (physical):proximity,nearness
• (friends):intimacy
• (stingy):
• (secretive):

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