Antonyms for adjacency
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : uh-jey-suh n-see |
Phonetic Transcription : əˈdʒeɪ sən si |
Definition of adjacency
- As in neighborhood : noun community, surroundings
- As in proximity : noun nearness to something
- As in nearness : noun nearness in time or space
- As in propinquity : noun proximity
- As in closeness : noun nearness
- As in nearness : noun approximateness
- As in locality : noun neighborhood
- The adjacency of the edge of the culvert warned him of what had befallen.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
- From its adjacency to the capital, the numerical proportion of persons paying tribute is larger than in any other province.
- Extract from : « A Visit to the Philippine Islands » by John Bowring
- Adjacency can be in respect to the past, as expressed through the practice of keeping burial records.
- Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
- Regardless of the type of adjacency, what is significant is the element that separates the immediate from the mediated.
- Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
- He saw at once that a small artery had been severed, and its adjacency to the jugular made it a matter of extreme danger.
- Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum
- I fancy that he felt that he would venture anything to escape our adjacency to the battery.
- Extract from : « The Dark Forest » by Hugh Walpole
Synonyms for adjacency
- adjacency
- approach
- appropinquity
- approximation
- area
- belt
- block
- closeness
- compactness
- concurrence
- confines
- contiguity
- contiguousness
- density
- district
- environs
- familiarity
- ghetto
- hood
- illiberality
- immediacy
- imminence
- intimacy
- jungle
- juxtaposition
- likeness
- locale
- locality
- loom
- nearness
- neck of the woods
- neighborhood
- parish
- parsimony
- part
- penuriousness
- precinct
- propinquity
- proximity
- purlieus
- quarter
- region
- resemblance
- reticence
- secrecy
- secretiveness
- section
- similarity
- slum
- stinginess
- stomping ground
- street
- strictness
- suburb
- territory
- togetherness
- tract
- turf
- vicinage
- vicinity
- ward
- zone
- zoo
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