Word Meanings - PROXIMITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being next in time, place, causation, influence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood, or alliance. If he plead proximity of blood That empty title is with ease withstood. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROXIMITY)

• Propinquity
• Nearness
• proximity
• contiguity
• adjacence
• Vicinity
• Juxtaposition
• neighborhood
• nearness

Related words: (words related to PROXIMITY)

• PROPINQUITY
  1. Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity. 2. Nearness in time. Sir T. Browne. 3. Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity. Shak.
• PROXIMITY
  The quality or state of being next in time, place, causation, influence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood, or alliance. If he plead proximity of blood That empty title is with ease withstood. Dryden.
• NEIGHBORHOOD
  1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton. 2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which
• JUXTAPOSITION
  A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words. Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition. Glanvill. Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity. Hare.
• NEARNESS
  The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.
• ADJACENCE; ADJACENCY
  1. The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings. 2. That which is adjacent. Sir T. Browne.
• VICINITY
  from vicus a row of houses, a village; akin to Gr. v a house, vi to enter, Goth. weihs town: cf. OF. vicinité. Cf. Diocese, Economy, 1. The quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness; propinquity; proximity; as, the value
• CONTIGUITY
  The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton.
• CONVICINITY
  Immediate vicinity; neighborhood. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton.
• APPROPINQUITY
  Nearness; propinquity. J. Gregory.