Propinquity \Pro*pin"qui*ty\, n. [L. propinquitas, from
propinquus near, neighboring, from prope near.]
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1. Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity.
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2. Nearness in time. --Sir T. Browne.
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3. Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
propinquity
n : the property of being close together [syn: proximity]
WordNet (r) 2.0
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "propinquity":
accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity,
agnation, alliance, ancestry, approach, approximation, assemblage,
association, blood, blood relationship, bond, brotherhood,
brothership, closeness, cognation, combination, common ancestry,
common descent, confines, connectedness, connection, consanguinity,
contiguity, contiguousness, contrariety, convergence, cousinhood,
cousinship, dealings, deduction, disjunction, enation, environs,
fatherhood, filiation, foreground, fraternity, homology, immediacy,
immediate foreground, intercourse, intimacy, junction, kindred,
kinship, liaison, link, linkage, linking, maternity, matrilineage,
matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, mutual attraction,
nearness, neighborhood, nighness, paternity, patrilineage,
patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, precinct, proximity, purlieus,
rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, sibship,
similarity, sisterhood, sistership, sympathy, tie, tie-in,
ties of blood, union, vicinage, vicinity
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
PROPINQUITY. Kindred; parentage. Vide. Affinity; Consanguinity; Next of kin.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
proximity
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