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NEIGHBOURLINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does neighbourliness mean?
• NEIGHBOURLINESS (noun)
The noun NEIGHBOURLINESS has 1 sense:
1. a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors
Familiarity information: NEIGHBOURLINESS 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 ("neighbourliness" is a kind of...):
friendliness (a friendly disposition)
Derivation:
neighbourly (exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor)
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