Close to
Close to adverb - (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct.
Touching
Touching adjective - Having a border in common.
Close to and touching are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Close to" instead the word "Touching" as an adverb or an adjective or a preposition.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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No Sense of Personal Space: During "In Our Town", and when talking to the Mane Six afterwards, she repeatedly gets really close to them, even touching them a few times.
- Like Malcolm, Fleming gets much too close to people and has no aversion to touching them.
Source: No Sense of Personal Space -
In The Dresden Files, a side effect of magically-enhanced empathy is that touching or being close to others makes the empath very uncomfortable.
Source: Hates Being Touched
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Touching and Close to. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/close_to/touching
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Touching or Close to. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/close_to/touching.
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