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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 neighbors
Familiarity information: NEIGHBORLINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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