different between propinquity vs contiguity

English

Etymology

propinqu(ent) +? -ity, from Old French propinquité or Latin propinquit?s, from propinquus (“neighbouring”) (from prop(e) (“near”) +? (h)inc (“hence”) +? -uus).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p???p??.kw?.ti/

Noun

propinquity (countable and uncountable, plural propinquities)

1. Nearness or proximity.

   Synonym: (obsolete) appropinquity
2. Affiliation or similarity.
   • 1979, Ybarra v. Illinois, 444 U.S. 85, 86 (1979):

     [A] person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not, without more, give rise to probable cause to search that person.

   • 2012, Andrew Marr (heard at the Leveson inquiry.)

     Propinquity and corruption don't always go side by side.

Translations

English

Etymology

From French contiguïté, from Late Latin contiguit?s, from Latin contiguus (“bordering upon”), from conting? (“I touch or border upon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?nt???ju??ti/
• Hyphenation: con?ti?gu?i?ty

Noun

contiguity (countable and uncountable, plural contiguities)

1. A state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another.
   • 1958–1960, R.S. Peters, The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition), chapter i: “Types of Explanation in Psychological Theories”, page 12:

     In the mechanical conception of ‘cause’ it is…demanded that there should be spatial and temporal contiguity between the movements involved.

Synonyms

• (state in which objects are physically touching): synapse (of neurons)

Antonyms

• discontiguity

Translations

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “contiguity”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• contiguity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “contiguity” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Notes: