Synonyms for neighborliness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ney-ber-lee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈneɪ bər li

Top 10 synonyms for neighborliness

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Définition of neighborliness

Origin : 1550s, from neighbor (n.) + -ly (1). Earlier as an adverb (1520s), while an earlier adjective form was neighborlike (late 15c.). Related: Neighborliness, which ousted earlier neighborship (mid-15c.).

As in chumminess : noun friendship
As in pleasantness : noun amiability
As in sociability : noun amiability
As in sociableness : noun amiability
As in amity : noun friendship
As in friendliness : noun companionability

Example sentences :

It was not charity, but neighborliness and good will she read there.
Extract from : « The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys » by Gulielma Zollinger

The neighborliness and hospitality of farmers is proverbial in every land and clime.
Extract from : « The Farmer and His Community » by Dwight Sanderson

Accepting a gift of food was different—that was just neighborliness.
Extract from : « Have We No Rights? » by Mabel Williamson

The far walls but a hundred feet away; but we had no quarrel with them for their neighborliness, no!
Extract from : « The Metal Monster » by A. Merritt

Settlements; their origin and history; what can neighborliness do for the poor?
Extract from : « Woman's Club Work and Programs » by Caroline French Benton

Neighborliness has not grown in the mountains—it is on the wane.
Extract from : « Our Southern Highlanders » by Horace Kephart

There was life and the sense of neighborliness to one's kind.
Extract from : « The Deserter » by Charles King

But it took the Neighborhood House to teach us as a community the beginnings of the art of neighborliness.
Extract from : « The Survey, Volume XXX, Number 1, April 5, 1913 » by Various

But it isn't reasonable to expect us to sacrifice eleven thousand or more just for neighborliness, IS it!
Extract from : « Babbitt » by Sinclair Lewis

The root of community interaction is neighborliness—an interest in and concern for other people.
Extract from : « Frying Pan Farm » by Elizabeth Brown Pryor

Antonyms for neighborliness

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