nearness
/ˈnɪənəs
/noun [mass noun]
The condition of being near; proximity: the town’s nearness to London...
- Outsiders envy our nearness to the lake and the life's-a-holiday vibe, even as they see it as a distant outpost, some eastern outpost of the moon.
- Residents claim the location is unsuitable because of its isolation, its nearness to the Leeds-Liverpool canal and a lack of public transport.
- But like many town centres, it has suffered because of its nearness to thriving Manchester city centre and the Trafford Centre.
Synonyms
closeness, proximity, propinquity, adjacency;
accessibility, handiness
rare contiguity, contiguousness, vicinity, vicinage
imminence, closeness, immediacy, immediateness
consanguinity, closeness
- tetracyclic
- tetracycline
- tetrad
- tetradactyl
- tetradactylous
- tetradactyly
- tetraethyl lead
- tetrafluoroethylene
- tetragonal
- tetragonally
- tetragram
- Tetragrammaton
- tetrahedral
- tetrahedrite
- tetrahedron
- tetrahydrocannabinol
- tetrahydrofuran
- tetrahydrogestrinone
- tetralogy
- tetralogy of Fallot
- tetramer
- tetrameric
- tetramerous
- tetrameter
- tetrapack