contiguity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: con=ti=gu=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

contiguity, n. [Cf. F. contiguité, LL. contiguitas.].

 The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity.  [1913 Webster]
"The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

contiguity, n.
1 being contiguous; proximity; contact.
2 Psychol. the proximity of ideas or impressions in place or time, as a principle of association.

THESAURUS

contiguity

abutment, abuttal, accord, addition, adjacency, adjoiningness, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alliance, apposition, approximation, appulse, assemblage, association, bond, closeness, combination, conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connection, conterminousness, contiguousness, contrariety, coterminousness, dealings, deduction, disjunction, filiation, homology, immediacy, intercourse, intimacy, junction, juxtaposition, liaison, link, linkage, linking, mutual attraction, nearness, perigee, perihelion, propinquity, proximity, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, similarity, sympathy, syzygy, tie, tie-in, union

ROGET THESAURUS

contiguity

Nearness

N nearness, proximity, propinquity, vicinity, vicinage, neighborhood, adjacency, contiguity, short distance, short step, short cut, earshot, close quarters, stone's throw, bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot, hair's breadth, span, purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours, suburbs, confines, banlieue, borderland, whereabouts, bystander, neighbor, borderer, approach, convergence, perihelion, near, nigh, close at hand, near at hand, close, neighboring, bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining, proximate, proximal, at hand, handy, near the mark, near run, home, intimate, near, nigh, hard by, fast by, close to, close upon, hard upon, at the point of, next door to, within reach, within call, within hearing, within earshot, within an ace of, but a step, not far from, at no great distance, on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of, in the environs, at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side, on the tip of one's tongue, under one's nose, within a stone's throw, in sight of, in presence of, at close quarters, cheek by jole, cheek by jowl, beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete, in juxtaposition, yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of, on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to, in the way, about, hereabouts, thereabouts, roughly, in round numbers, approximately, approximatively, as good as, well-nigh.

Contiguity

N contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal, juxtaposition, abutment, osculation, meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence, adhesion, touching, (touch), borderland, frontier, tangent, abutter, contiguous, touching, in contact, conterminous, end to end, osculatory, pertingent, tangential, hand to hand, close to, with no interval.