propinquity

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

propinquity
    n 1: the property of being close together [syn: {proximity},
         {propinquity}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Propinquity \Pro*pin"qui*ty\, n. [L. propinquitas, from
   propinquus near, neighboring, from prope near.]
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   1. Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity.
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   2. Nearness in time. --Sir T. Browne.
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   3. Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity. --Shak.
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from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

PROPINQUITY. Kindred; parentage. Vide. Affinity; Consanguinity; Next of kin.

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

88 Moby Thesaurus words for "propinquity":
      accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity,
      agnation, alliance, ancestry, approach, approximation, assemblage,
      association, blood, blood relationship, bond, brotherhood,
      brothership, closeness, cognation, combination, common ancestry,
      common descent, confines, connectedness, connection, consanguinity,
      contiguity, contiguousness, contrariety, convergence, cousinhood,
      cousinship, dealings, deduction, disjunction, enation, environs,
      fatherhood, filiation, foreground, fraternity, homology, immediacy,
      immediate foreground, intercourse, intimacy, junction, kindred,
      kinship, liaison, link, linkage, linking, maternity, matrilineage,
      matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, mutual attraction,
      nearness, neighborhood, nighness, paternity, patrilineage,
      patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, precinct, proximity, purlieus,
      rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, sibship,
      similarity, sisterhood, sistership, sympathy, tie, tie-in,
      ties of blood, union, vicinage, vicinity