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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Contiguity \Con'ti*gu"i*ty\, noun [Cf. F. contiguit['e], LL. contiguitas.] The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity.

The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. --T. Warton.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

contiguity

noun: the attribute of being so near as to be touching [syn: {adjacency}, {contiguousness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

58 Moby Thesaurus words for "contiguity": abutment, abuttal, accord, addition, adjacency, adjoiningness, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alliance, apposition, approximation, appulse, assemblage, association, bond, closeness, combination, conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connection, conterminousness, contiguousness, contrariety, coterminousness, dealings, deduction, disjunction, filiation, homology, immediacy, intercourse, intimacy, junction, juxtaposition, liaison, link, linkage, linking, mutual attraction, nearness, perigee, perihelion, propinquity, proximity, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, similarity, sympathy, syzygy, tie, tie-in, union

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