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Homogamy vs Propinquity - What's the difference?

homogamy | propinquity |

As nouns the difference between homogamy and propinquity

is that homogamy is fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same plant while propinquity is nearness or proximity.

homogamy

English

Noun

(-)
  • (botany) fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same plant
  • (biology) breeding between similar individuals; inbreeding
  • (sociology) marriage or other union between similar people, or people of the same sex
  • Synonyms

    * (marriage) See also

    Antonyms

    * heterogamy * (marriage) See also

    propinquity

    English

    Noun

    (propinquities)
  • Nearness or proximity.
  • * 1904 , , "The Other Two ":
  • *:Some experimental spirits could not resist the diversion of throwing Varick and his former wife together, and there were those who thought he found a zest in the propinquity .
  • * 1964 , et al, "The Urban Place and the Non-Place Urban Realm''" in ''Explorations into Urban Structure :
  • *:Community without propinquity
  • *1973 , , Don't Point That Thing at Me , Penguin 2001, p. 70:
  • *:Surely, too, it would be a waste of an agent, for after several hours of propinquity I could scarcely fail to recognise him in the future.
  • *1985 , :
  • *:There was also the question of Julius’s glandular responses to the almost daily propinquity of his Empress, so naked under her lawn.
  • *1993 , (Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993), 29:
  • *:Geographical propinquity gives rise to conflicting territorial claims from Bosnia to Mindanao.
  • Affiliation or similarity.
  • * 1608 , ":
  • *:"[...]Here I disclaim my all my paternal care,/Propinquity , and property of blood[...]"
  • *1979 , Ybarra v. Illinois, 444 U.S. 85, 86 (1979):
  • *:[A] person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not, without more, give rise to probable cause to search that person.
  • *1997 , :
  • *:Decent people out there. Russ wants to believe they are still assembled in some recognizable manner, the kindred unit at the radio, old lines and ties and propinquities .
  • *2012 , .)
  • *:Propinquity and corruption don't always go side by side.
  • Synonyms

    * (proximity) appropinquity (obsolete)