propinquity
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prettygoodwordpropinquity - n., nearness in several senses: in place, proximity; in time; of relation, kinship.
Stress on the second syllable, it turns out. From Old French, from Latin propinquitas, nearness, vicinity, from propinquus, near, neighboring, from prope, near -- the same root that gives us approach.
---L.
Stress on the second syllable, it turns out. From Old French, from Latin propinquitas, nearness, vicinity, from propinquus, near, neighboring, from prope, near -- the same root that gives us approach.
---L.
