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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | closeness |
| Synonyms: | affinity, connection, kinship, nearness, proximity, relationship, solidarity, togetherness, vicinity |
| Main Entry: | propinquity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kinship |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, connection, consanguinity, kin, relations, relationship |
| Main Entry: | contact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | touching |
| Synonyms: | approximation, closeness, collision, connection, contiguity, contingence, hit, impingement, junction, juxtaposition, nearness, propinquity, proximity, relation, strike, taction, touch, union |
| Antonyms: | avoidance |
| Main Entry: | neighborhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | community, surroundings |
| Synonyms: | adjacency, area, block, closeness, confines, contiguity, district, environs, ghetto, hood, jungle*, locale, locality, nearness, neck of the woods, parish, part, precinct, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, region, section, slum, stomping ground, street, suburb, territory, tract, turf, vicinage, vicinity, ward, zone, zoo |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | presence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | closeness, vicinity |
| Synonyms: | immediate circle, nearness, neighborhood, propinquity, proximity |
| Antonyms: | distance |
| Main Entry: | proximity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nearness to something |
| Synonyms: | adjacency, appropinquity, closeness, concurrence, contiguity, contiguousness, immediacy, juxtaposition, propinquity, togetherness |
| Antonyms: | distance, remoteness |
| Main Entry: | relation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | connection, family connection |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, affinity, alliance, association, consanguinity, kin, kindred, kinship, kinsperson, liaison, propinquity, relationship, relative, sibling, similarity |
| Main Entry: | vicinity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | local area |
| Synonyms: | around*, ballpark, district, environment, environs, hood, locality, nearness, neck of the woods, neighborhood, precinct, pretty near, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, range, region, surroundings, territory, turf*, vicinage |
| Antonyms: | faraway |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nearness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nearness in time or space |
| Synonyms: | adjacency, approach, approximation, closeness, contiguity, immediacy, imminence, likeness, loom, neighborhood, propinquity, proximity, resemblance, similarity, vicinage, vicinity |
| Antonyms: | difference, distance, remoteness |
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