Togetherness is the warm feeling of belonging that comes from being close to a group of people — a family, a team, a class. It names the feeling, not the fact of being in the same place: a crowded train has no togetherness in it. The word is uncountable, so people say a sense of togetherness, a feeling of togetherness, a spirit of togetherness, and those three phrases are where you will meet it most. It shows up in speeches, in writing about families and holidays, and in sports, where a coach says the team has togetherness meaning the players trust each other. The tone is positive but slightly soft and sentimental, so in cooler writing it can sound like advertising language. There is a gentle ironic use too — forced togetherness, all that enforced togetherness — for when people are pushed into closeness they did not want, which is how many people describe long family gatherings.