Propinquity

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  propinquity
       n : the property of being close together [syn: {proximity}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PROPINQUITY. Kindred; parentage. Vide. Affinity; Consanguinity; Next of kin.