neighborliness

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noun

The characteristic of being neighborly.

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Meanings

nounneighborliness (uncountable)

alternative UK neighbourliness

  1. uncountableThe characteristic of being neighborly.
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    Hereness isn’t just about place, but about people: centering our politics and spiritual project around those nearest to us, adopting neighborliness as political practice and intergenerationality as a matter of course. Hereness demands that we learn our local histories and resurrect hidden ones of our own. Hereness means we refuse to disappear into the interiority of our liturgy, and equally refuse to stop being Jews in public. Hereness forces us to consider critically our relationship with class and its ordering of our world. Hereness is weird and materialist and queer and fun and angry, and best of all it’s already happening.

    2018 April 16, Jacob Plitman, “On an Emerging Diasporism”, in Jewish Currents, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Englishneighbor
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishneighborly
  5. Englishneighborliness

From neighborly + -ness.

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Translations

German Nachbarschaftlichkeit
  • Nachbarschaftlichkeitquality of being neighborly
Irish comharsanacht
  • comharsanachtquality of being neighborly
Cite this entry
APA

neighborliness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neighborliness

MLA

“neighborliness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neighborliness. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “neighborliness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neighborliness.

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