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n. The state of being near.

n. The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.

n. The state or fact of being near, in any sense; proximity; imminence.

n. the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance

"On the other hand, I feel so clearly a certain nearness, spiritually and psychologically, to Henry Stuart–well, I guess there is even an emotional counterpart, too."

distance    remoteness    distantness   

distance   

proximity    propinquity    adjacency    contiguousness    contiguity   

adjacency    closeness    nighness    neighborhood    appropinquity    proximity    vicinity    propinquity   

near   

closeness    proximity    intimacy    urgency    insignificance    vividness    vastness    smallness    strangeness    distinctness