contiguity

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

contiguity
    n 1: the attribute of being so near as to be touching [syn:
         {adjacency}, {contiguity}, {contiguousness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Contiguity \Con`ti*gu"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. contiguit['e], LL.
   contiguitas.]
   The state of being contiguous; intimate association;
   nearness; proximity.
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         The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes.
                                                  --T. Warton.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

58 Moby Thesaurus words for "contiguity":
      abutment, abuttal, accord, addition, adjacency, adjoiningness,
      adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alliance, apposition,
      approximation, appulse, assemblage, association, bond, closeness,
      combination, conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connection,
      conterminousness, contiguousness, contrariety, coterminousness,
      dealings, deduction, disjunction, filiation, homology, immediacy,
      intercourse, intimacy, junction, juxtaposition, liaison, link,
      linkage, linking, mutual attraction, nearness, perigee, perihelion,
      propinquity, proximity, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations,
      relationship, similarity, sympathy, syzygy, tie, tie-in, union