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closeness

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How do they maintain that closeness with this risk over their heads?

Is there something bizarre or abnormal about this type of father-daughter relationship, their closeness?

The early team felt an intense closeness—the kind of bond you form when everyone works together toward one unified goal.

“I think that there was—or is—a real closeness of Valentino and mine that never stopped,” Giammetti says.

For a while they became inseparable, but Morrissey never details their closeness.

She stood before him with lowered eyelids, her bosom heaving still from the agitation of fear his closeness had aroused in her.

Flora's whisper to Ethel was her first discovery that the closeness and the heat of the room was nearly overpowering.

The closeness of their association made all the more surprising this sudden exclusion.

In a minute he had folded his arms with the same closeness Vanderbank had used—in a minute he too was nervously shaking his foot.

Nowhere is the science of boat-building and boat-sailing studied with greater closeness than in that shop.

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On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to closeness, such as: intimacy, proximity, adjacency, compactness, density, and parsimony.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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