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ˈneighbourliness
[f. next + -ness.]
The condition, quality or fact of being neighbourly; friendliness, kindly feeling.
1662Pepys Diary 5 Nov., There was not the neighbourliness between her and my wife that was fit to be. 1685H. More Refl. Baxter Pref. A 3 Neighbourliness and Good⁓nature washes them out of the remembrance of both. 1816Coleridge Lay Serm. (Bohn) 340 It is the science of..philanthropy without neighbourliness. 1879Spectator 7 June 719 He has tried to make out how far neighbourliness, as amongst ants of the same nest, really goes. |