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Examples of propinquity
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Time and propinquity, it was thought, would produce a richly diverse yet integrated society.
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Fourteen people have died as a result of that lethal propinquity.
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This most immediate factor is simple propinquity.
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It's not that there is enforced propinquity.
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The propinquity of the wicked plainly has an unsettling impact on the peace of mind of the virtuous Mr Santorum.
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They may hope to gain some pleasure from mere propinquity, and also from helping young people in wholly admirable ways.
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A related term is propinquity.
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Propinquity is one of the factors, set out by Jeremy Bentham, used to measure the amount of pleasure in a method known as felicific calculus.
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In the course of centuries-long propinquity to and intercourse with Caucasian languages, Ossetian became similar to them in some features, particularly in phonetics and lexicon.
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- Proximity: the property of being close together
- Nearness or proximity; Affiliation or similarity
- Nearness in place; close-by. Also used to describe relationships as synonymous for "kin."
- The closer in time a reinforcer is the greater is the probability that it will effect behavior.
- The tendency for people to work better or bond with those geographically near them; discussed by Rand Corporation in its 1993 study of gays in the military (the unit cohesion concept).
- Nearness of relationship; kinship.
- (n) - nearness; affinity
