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NEIGHBORLINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neighborliness mean? 

NEIGHBORLINESS (noun)
  The noun NEIGHBORLINESS has 1 sense:

1. a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighborsplay

  Familiarity information: NEIGHBORLINESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NEIGHBORLINESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

good-neighborliness; good-neighbourliness; neighborliness; neighbourliness

Hypernyms ("neighborliness" is a kind of...):

friendliness (a friendly disposition)

Antonym:

unneighborliness (an unneighborly disposition)

Derivation:

neighborly (exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor)


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