closeness
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6.7
- noun
- /ˈkloʊsnəs/
:
aire viciado
- The office had been shut up since I left for Vegas, and I opened the Berkeley Street window to dilute the accumulated closeness.
Examples
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"It is dreadful." "You do not know how we suffer," Sonya complained, "with the noise, the steam, the closeness, the crowding..."
Fiction book (2002) -
Frances went to a bucket in the corner, pulled out three tall boys, popped the tabs expertly, and handed one to Clara, possibly conscious of the closeness and stench in the bus.
Fiction book (1993) -
The only purpose he admitted to himself was the need for fresh air after the closeness of the parlor.
Fiction book (1998) -
Faint smells of death still hung in the valley air, but it was better than the closeness inside.
Fiction book (1991) -
I find myself wide awake and aching again, aroused by nothing I can name, unless it's the darkness, the closeness of the air in here.
Fiction book (1994) -
As a child, he'd always hated the house: its closeness and its strangers, its rooms in which he was allowed, and the many which were forbidden.
Fiction book (1998) -
The squalor, their closeness on the mat, the cell-like dampness of the room.
Fiction book (1998) -
There were caravans to sleep in, but he hated that closeness and the bad air. When he had finished eating with them at night, listening to their songs, jokes, and laughter, he took a sleeping bag into the woods.
Fiction book (2000) -
It was cold inside the vessel, a chill made all the more cutting by its contrast to the muggy Florida night and the stale closeness of the visitors' room in the prison.
Fiction book (2000) -
After running for several miles, the closeness of the humid air made it hard for him to breathe.
Synonyms
1
4.1
Air in a room that feels heavy and not fresh
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4.6
The state of not letting air move in or out
Warm air that feels unpleasant because it does not move and has little fresh air
Antonyms
How Stuffy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Closeness comes from close, from the old Latin claudere 'to shut'. Picture a room with the windows 'shut' and no air — that image helps explain why closeness can mean a hot, stuffy feeling.