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Propinquity vs Contiguity - What's the difference?

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Propinquity is a related term of contiguity.


As nouns the difference between propinquity and contiguity

is that propinquity is nearness or proximity while contiguity is a state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another.

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)

    contiguity

    English

    Noun

    (contiguities)
  • A state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another.
  • * 1958–1960 , (second edition), chapter i: “Types of Explanation in Psychological Theories”, page 12:
  • In the mechanical conception of ‘cause’ it is…demanded that there should be spatial and temporal contiguity between the movements involved.

    Synonyms

    * (state in which objects are physically touching) synapse (of neurons) Medical Physiology, Boron & Boulpaep, ISBN 1-4160-2328-3, Elsevier Saunders 2005. Updated edition. page 295.

    References

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