Definitions for propinquities

propinquities pro·pin·qui·ty

Spelling: [proh-ping-kwi-tee]
IPA: /proʊˈpɪŋ kwɪ ti/

Propinquities is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 27 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 30 points.

You can make 1072 anagrams from letters in propinquities (eiiinoppqrstu).

Definitions for propinquities

noun

  1. nearness in place; proximity.
  2. nearness of relation; kinship.
  3. affinity of nature; similarity.
  4. nearness in time.

Origin of propinquities

1350-1400; Middle English propinquite Latin propinquitās nearness, equivalent to propinqu(us) near (prop(e) near (see pro-1) + -inquus adj. suffix) + -itās

Examples for propinquities

That is the penalty of prairie life; there is no escape from propinquity.

Our propinquity was evidently neither novel nor discomposing.

It did not appear to him to be a matter of a dark night and a propinquity and so on.

It is the consciousness of the propinquity of some deadly and loathsome disease.

The birds had now nothing to fear from the propinquity of the hut.

That same chord within him thrilled to her voice, her propinquity.

Your mother is as ignorant of the propinquity as Greta herself.

She appeared to have forgotten the propinquity of other persons.

Just that I was wrong; and I admit freely that I was wrong in scoffing at the propinquity.

We really drifted into an engagement more because of propinquity than anything else.

Word Value for propinquities
Scrable

27

Words with friends

30

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