Antonyms for neighborliness
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : ney-ber-lee |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈneɪ bər li |
Definition 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
- 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
Synonyms for neighborliness
- affability
- agreeability
- agreeableness
- amenity
- amiability
- amiableness
- amicableness
- amity
- benevolence
- camaraderie
- closeness
- comity
- companionship
- comradery
- comradeship
- concord
- congeniality
- congenialness
- conviviality
- cordiality
- cordialness
- familiarity
- fellowship
- folksiness
- friendliness
- friendship
- geniality
- genialness
- good vibrations
- goodwill
- harmony
- hitting it off
- kindliness
- kindness
- nearness
- neighborliness
- open arms
- pleasantness
- same wavelength
- simpatico
- sociability
- sociableness
- togetherness
- warmth
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