(n.) The quality or state of being next in time, place, causation, influence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood, or alliance.
Thesaurus Entries
accord, addition, adjacency, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alliance, approach, approximation, assemblage, association, bond, closeness, combination, confines, connectedness, connection, contiguity, contiguousness, contrariety, convergence, dealings, deduction, disjunction, environs, filiation, foreground, homology, immediacy, immediate foreground, intercourse, intimacy, junction, juxtaposition, liaison, link, linkage, linking, mutual attraction, nearness, neighborhood, nighness, precinct, propinquity, purlieus, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, similarity, sympathy, tie, tie-in, togetherness, union, vicinage, vicinity
