Closeness

noun

The condition of being friends: chumminess, companionship, comradeship, familiarity, fellowship, friendship, intimacy. See love/hatred.

The noun has 5 meanings:

Meaning #1: a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
  Synonym: intimacy

Meaning #2: the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance
  Synonym: nearness

Meaning #3: extreme stinginess
  Synonyms: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness

Meaning #4: characterized by a lack of openness esp about one's actions or purposes
  Synonym: secretiveness
  Antonym: openness (meaning #2)

Meaning #5: close or warm friendship
  Synonyms: familiarity, intimacy

• In graph theory, closeness is the shortest path between one vertex and another vertex.

• In social psychology, closeness is the personal distance between two people.

• The IOS scale in psychology means "Inclusion of Other in Self Scale": it measures the specific notion of closeness as including other in the self (Aron e Aron, 1986).

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