Definitions for propinquity

propinquity pro·pin·qui·ty

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

Propinquity is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 27 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 30 points.

You can make 302 anagrams from letters in propinquity (iinoppqrtuy).

Definitions for propinquity

noun

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

Origin of propinquity

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 propinquity

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our propinquity was evidently neither novel nor discomposing.

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

She appeared to have forgotten the propinquity of other persons.

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

Word Value for propinquity
Scrable

27

Words with friends

30

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