Togetherness is a warm sense of belonging with others. A feeling of togetherness, family togetherness, foster togetherness.
The word is faintly saccharine and belongs to advertising and to speeches, which is why it is hard to say without irony. What it names is real enough, and it is one of the strongest predictors of how people rate their lives.
1nountogethernessA warm sense of belonging with others.
“Christmas dinner gives our family a rare feeling of togetherness.”
togetherness is a feeling.
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰedʰ-
Middle English
togedere
English
together
English, today
togetherness
Built from
From together + -ness. together comes from Middle English togedere. From Late Middle English together, from earlier togedere, togadere, from Old English tōgædere (“together”), from Proto-West Germanic tōgadura, tegadura, from Proto-Germanic tō (“to”) + gadar (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European gʰedʰ- (“to unite, keep”), equivalent to to-2 + gather. Cognate with Scots thegither (“together”), Old Frisian togadera (whence West Frisian togearre (“together”)), Dutch tegader (“together”), Middle Low German tōgāder (“together”), Middle High German zegater (“together”). Compare also Old English ætgædere (“together”), Old English ġeador (“together”). More at gather.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA