different between closeness vs vicinage

English

Etymology

close +? -ness

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kl??sn?s/

Noun

closeness (usually uncountable, plural closenesses)

1. The state of being close (all senses)
2. The state of being friends
3. The state of being mean or stingy
4. The state of being secretive
5. (mathematics) The shortest path between two vertices in a graph
6. (archaic) Solitude, seclusion
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2

     I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated / To closeness and the bettering of my mind [...]

Synonyms

• (physical): proximity, nearness
• (friends): intimacy
• (stingy):
• (secretive):

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old French visnage, respelled to more closer match its Latin source v?c?nus (“neighbor”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?v?s?n?d?/

Noun

vicinage (plural vicinages)

1. (now rare) A surrounding district; a neighbourhood.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 34:

     She is the only flower of fragrance that has blown in this vicinage for ten years past, or will for ten years to come […].
2. (now rare) The people of a neighbourhood.
3. The state of living near something; proximity, closeness.
4. (Britain, US, law) The area where a crime was committed, a trial is being held, or the community from which jurors are drawn.
5. (New Jersey, law) A geographical division of the w:New Jersey Superior Court, covering one or more counties, for judicial administration and the assignment of venue to an action within the Superior Court

See also

• vicinity
• vicinal