next-to-ness

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From next to +‎ -ness.

Noun

next-to-ness (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The state, quality, or condition of being next to someone or something; adjacentness; proximity.
    • 2000, William Maker, Hegel and Aesthetics, page 88:
      This adjoined-ness or next-to-ness is not only characteristic of symbolic art; it is what is specifically architectural.
    • 2005, Clara Mancini, Cinematic Hypertext: Investigating a New Paradigm, page 170:
      But in addition to grammatical next-to-ness, there is normal physical proximity.
    • 2011, Joanna Clapps Herman, The Anarchist Bastard: Growing Up Italian in America, page 108:
      Even as I feel her panicky worries because of the voices rising outside our room, I feel comforted because her slightly larger body is always in next-to-ness to mine.
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