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| Main Entry: |
nearness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | approximateness |
| Synonyms: | adjacency, approximation, closeness, contiguity, familiarity, imminence, intimacy, propinquity, proximity |
| Antonyms: | distance |
| Main Entry: | chumminess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship |
| Synonyms: | camaraderie, closeness, companionship, comradeship, familiarity, fellowship, folksiness, nearness, neighborliness, sociableness |
| Main Entry: | consuetude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | custom |
| Synonyms: | familiarity, habit, habitude, manner, practice, praxis, tradition, usage, usance |
| Main Entry: | genteelness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | courtesy |
| Synonyms: | affability, amenities, amiability, attentiveness, ceremony, chivalry, civility, comity, complaisance, consideration, cordiality, courteousness, courtliness, cultivation, culture, deference, elegance, familiarity, favor, friendliness, gallantness, gallantr |
| Main Entry: | impudency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impudence |
| Synonyms: | assumption, audaciousness, audacity, barbarism, blunder, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, face, familiarity, faux pas, forwardness, gaffe, gall, gaucherie, goof, immodesty, impertinence, incivility, incongruity, incorrectness, indecency, indecorum, inelegance, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness, slip*, solecism, unseemliness, unsuitability, vulgarism, vulgarity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | informality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ease |
| Synonyms: | affability, aplomb, breeze, casualness, child's play, cinch, cleverness, composure, dexterity, dispatch, duck soup, easiness, easygoingness, efficiency, effortlessness, expertise, expertness, familiarity, flexibility, fluency, insouciance, knack, liberty, naturalness, nonchalance, poise, pushover, quickness, readiness, relaxedness, setup, simplicity, skillfulness, smooth sailing, smoothness, snap, spontaneity, unaffectedness, unceremoniousness, unconstraint, unreservedness, unrestraint |
| Main Entry: | innocuousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insipidity |
| Synonyms: | aridity, blandness, boredom, commonplaceness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, familiarity, flatness, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, monotomy, routine, sameness, slowness, staleness, tediousness, tedium, uninterestingness, vapidity, vapidness, washiness, wateriness |
| Main Entry: | insipidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
| Synonyms: | aridity, asepticism, blandness, boredom, colorlessness, commonplaceness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, familiarity, flatness, flavorlessness, gentility, innocuousness, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, mildness, monotomy, routine, sameness, slowness, staleness, sterileness, sterility, stodginess, tediousness, tedium, uninterestingness, vapidity, vapidness, weariness |
| Main Entry: | insipidness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insipidity |
| Synonyms: | aridity, blandness, boredom, commonplaceness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, dullness, familiarity, flatness, innocuousness, jejuneness, lifelessness, monotomy, routine, sameness, slowness, staleness, tediousness, tedium, uninterestingness, vapidity, vapidness, washiness, wateriness |
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