Proximity vs Propinquity - What's the difference?
proximity | propinquity |
closeness; the state of being near as in space, time, or relationship.
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.
As nouns the difference between proximity and propinquity
is that proximity is closeness; the state of being near as in space, time, or relationship while propinquity is nearness or proximity.proximity
English
Noun
(proximities)- The proximity of the heat source allowed it to be detected by the sensor.