neighborliness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English neighbor Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -ly English -ly English neighborly Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English neighborliness From neighborly + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The characteristic of being neighborly.
Hereness isn’t just about place, but about people: centering our politics and spiritual project around those nearest to us, adopting neighborliness as political practice and intergenerationality as a matter of course. Hereness demands that we learn our local histories and resurrect hidden ones of our own. Hereness means we refuse to disappear into the interiority of our liturgy, and equally refuse to stop being Jews in public. Hereness forces us to consider critically our relationship with class and its ordering of our world. Hereness is weird and materialist and queer and fun and angry, and best of all it’s already happening.
2018 April 16, Jacob Plitman, “On an Emerging Diasporism”, in Jewish Currents, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| neighbourliness | UK, alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (2)
de Nachbarschaftlichkeit (quality of being neighborly) · ga comharsanacht (quality of being neighborly)