Contiguity [noun]

Definition of Contiguity:

community, surroundings

Synonyms of Contiguity:

● Part

● Zone

● District

● Area

● Parish

● Section

● Suburb

● Street

● Slum

● Precinct

● Territory

● Region

● Block

● Environs

● Confines

● Zoo

● Locality

● Locale

● Proximity

● Nearness

● Closeness

● Vicinity

● Propinquity

● Jungle

● Tract

● Turf

● Ward

● Quarter

● Hood

● Neck of the woods

● Ghetto

● Adjacency

● Stomping ground

● Vicinage


Opposite/Antonyms of Contiguity:

● Remoteness

● Distance

● Whole


Sentence/Example of Contiguity:

They take place whether the organs be tied or cut through, provided there exists a simple contiguity between the divided ends.

The principal cause of them is the contiguity of this river to the Blue Mountains.

He dwells on the inferiority of this shot, the smallness of the skin, the close contiguity of its owner.

There are two general classes of association of ideas in memory, viz.: Association of contiguity, and logical association.

Neither can I see the force of his argument derived from the contiguity of the grave-yard.

The contiguity of the lives of Kepler and Tycho furnishes a moral too obvious to need pointing out.

Name the figures based on resemblance; those based on contiguity; on contrast.

All over the State farming has been profitable, and by the contiguity of markets prompt returns for the products are the rule.

His contiguity flurried her, and instead of going straight to Paula she sought out Mrs. Goodman.

Were they groups of kin, or groups of associates by contiguity?