Propinquity vs Adjacency - What's the difference?
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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.
(uncountable) The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch.
(countable) A relationship of being adjacent to something.
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Propinquity is a related term of adjacency.
As nouns the difference between propinquity and adjacency
is that propinquity is nearness or proximity while adjacency is (uncountable) the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch.propinquity
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