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next-to-ness en · NOUN

Etymology

From next to + -ness.

Meanings

1. (informal, uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being next to someone or something; adjacentness; proximity.
   • This adjoined-ness or next-to-ness is not only characteristic of symbolic art; it is what is specifically architectural. 2000, William Maker, Hegel and Aesthetics, page 88:
   • But in addition to grammatical next-to-ness, there is normal physical proximity. 2005, Clara Mancini, Cinematic Hypertext: Investigating a New Paradigm, page 170:
   • Even as I feel her panicky worries because of the voices rising outside our room, I feel comforted because her slightly larger body is always in next-to-ness to mine. 2011, Joanna Clapps Herman, The Anarchist Bastard: Growing Up Italian in America, page 108:

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