propinquity
/pɹəˈpɪŋ.kwɪ.ti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Some experimental spirits could not resist the diversion of throwing Varick and his former wife together, and there were those who thought he found a zest in the propinquity."
- "Yet, never before in human history has it been so easy to communicate across long distances. Never before have men been able to maintain intimate and continuing contact with others across thousands of miles; never has intimacy been so independent of spatial propinquity."
- "Surely, too, it would be a waste of an agent, for after several hours of propinquity I could scarcely fail to recognise him in the future."
- "There was also the question of Julius’s glandular responses to the almost daily propinquity of his Empress, so naked under her lawn."
- "Geographical propinquity gives rise to conflicting territorial claims from Bosnia to Mindanao."
- "A seventy-second section of the film, spelling out the concept of time and propinquity, involves archival footage of (and this is an incomplete list) American cars going through an underpass; flaring streetlights; two men in loud suits, their faces out of the frame, smoking cigars and drinking whisky while sitting on garden furniture on the balcony of a high rise; […]"
Etymology
From propinqu(ent) + -ity, from Middle English propinquite, from Middle French propinquité or Latin propinquitās, from propinquus (“neighbouring”) (from prop(e) (“near”) + (h)inc (“hence”) + -uus).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *-kʷe, propinquite, propinquité, propinquitās
- Suffix: propinquent
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /pɹəˈpɪŋ.kwɪ.ti/