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neighborliness

neighborliness noun: the characteristic of being neighborly.

Noun

neighborliness (uncountable)

  1. 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...2018 April 16, Jacob Plitman, “On an Emerging Diasporism”, in Jewish Currents, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023

Forms of neighborliness

alternative UKneighbourliness

Origin of neighborliness

From neighborly + -ness.

Words formed from neighborliness

Questions about neighborliness

What does neighborliness mean?
Neighborliness means the characteristic of being neighborly.
What part of speech is neighborliness?
Neighborliness is a noun.

Words near neighborliness in the dictionary

  1. neighborless
  2. neighborlier
  3. neighborliest
  4. neighborlike
  5. neighborlily
  6. neighborliness
  7. neighborly
  8. neighborred
  9. neighbors
  10. Neighborses
  11. neighborship

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