neighborliness
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈneɪbərˌlɪnəs/
- US
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vecindad
- During the winter storms, acts of neighborliness were evident as everyone looked out for one another.
- a good neighborliness
Examples
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The community's neighborliness made it a welcoming place for newcomers.
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The things I do in the name of neighborliness.
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At the level of society and neighborliness, local, national, and international, war can only be the mother of disasters.
Academic text (2003) -
The lawn could wait; there would be a time for neighborliness.
Fiction book (1990) -
The idea of neighborliness itself can be made tangible.
Blog text (29) -
I think that neighborliness doesn't especially involve democracy.
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Responsibility is not only vouching for oneself but also taking on the task of neighborliness.
Academic text (1992) -
Among the great complaints of our time is the decline of neighborhoods and neighborliness, of informal social ties, voluntary cooperation, and mutual aid.
Academic text (1999) -
Society recognized the family and its political, social, and economic rights, but certain virtues such as wisdom, knowledge, piety, bravery, and good neighborliness could be achieved by the individual only living in a community.
Academic text (1991) -
On the same page, he printed an item entitled "The Home Merchant" in which he contrasted the neighborliness of the hometown store owner with the impersonal quality of big city merchant houses and mail order firms.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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Friendly and generous actions that help or comfort other people
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2.8
Friendly feelings and kind acts toward other people
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A kind and pleasant way of treating other people
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6.1
Kind feelings and actions that help other people
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5.5
A friendly, cheerful way that makes people feel welcome
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Being friendly, generous, and caring to other people
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6.0
Being friendly and welcoming to guests and strangers
A friendly, helpful way people treat others who live near them
A kind, friendly attitude that wants to help others
A friendly, sociable feeling among people who share a common goal
Antonyms
Compounds
How Friendly
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- US
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1.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
neighborliness = neighborly (transparent) = neighbor + ly + ness
Formed by adding the productive noun-forming suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'neighborly', yielding the quality of being neighborly.
Etymology
Neighborliness comes from neighbor, someone who lives 'near' you, plus the ending -liness, which means 'the quality of', so neighborliness is the quality of being friendly and helpful to people who live near you.