propinquity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=pin=qui=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

propinquity, n. [L. propinquitas, from propinquus near, neighboring, from prope near.].

•  Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity.  [1913 Webster]
•  Nearness in time.  Sir T. Browne.  [1913 Webster]
•  Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

propinquity, n.
1 nearness in space; proximity.
2 close kinship.
3 similarity.

Etymology

ME f. OF propinquit{eacute} or L propinquitas f. propinquus near f. prope near to

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

propinquity

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.