Emotions
Synonyms for closeness
Synonyms for closeness: intimacy and nearness. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for closeness
- intimacynoun, in the sense "a feeling of being intimate and belonging together"
- nearnessnoun, in the sense "the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance"
All two are filed under closeness's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
Their closeness grew as the night wore on.
The true synonym
intimacy
Same sentence, swapped: Their intimacy grew as the night wore on.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot closeness is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- meanness
- analogy
- accordance
the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance
The sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action.
The true synonym
nearness
Same sentence, swapped: The sudden nearness of the dock sent him into action.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- meanness
- elevation
- wavelength
Where closeness turns up in the game
closeness is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play closeness
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so closeness reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
Free with ads on iPhone. Synonym Stack Plus removes them: $2.99 a week, $5.99 a month or $49.99 a year, with a 7 day free trial on the monthly and annual plans.
Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because emotions is the company closeness keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. closeness carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.