Noun
The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYour nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in. Henry Miller
Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. Charles Ives
This spiritual freedom, the opposite of insensitivity or laziness, freedom to suffer and to know error, is the nearness and very redemption of God. Aldo Capitini
I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God. Meister Eckhart
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant. Martin Heidegger
A man who is trying sincerely to disentangle the web of human affairs is greatly helped by the nearness of a woman's mind, vigilant, clever, discreet, lucid, which lights up that shadowy half of his world: women's thoughts. André Maurois