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Definition of Nearness

Nearness

The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.

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Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.
Charles Ives

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.
Georg Simmel

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
Charles Alexander Eastman

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