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neighborliness

noun

neighborliness is a noun meaning “The characteristic of being neighborly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-I-G-H-B-O-R-L-I-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does neighborliness mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The characteristic of being neighborly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of neighborliness

  • neighbourliness UK

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is neighborliness?

Neighborliness appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Neighborliness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense quality of being neighborly:

LanguageWords
GermanNachbarschaftlichkeit

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.