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NEIGHBORLINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors
Synonyms:
good-neighborliness; good-neighbourliness; neighborliness; neighbourliness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)