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Definition of Contiguousness
1. Noun. The attribute of being so near as to be touching.
Generic synonyms: Closeness, Nearness
Derivative terms: Adjacent, Adjacent, Adjacent, Contiguous, Contiguous, Contiguous, Contiguous, Contiguous
Definition of Contiguousness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being contiguous. ¹
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Definition of Contiguousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contiguousness
Literary usage of Contiguousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Actual contact; a touching; the state of being in contact, or within touching
distance ; hence, proximity of situation or place; contiguousness ; adjacency. ..."
2. The British Dominions in North America, Or, A Topographical and Statistical ...by Joseph Bouchette, Bouchette, Joseph, 1774-1841 by Joseph Bouchette, Bouchette, Joseph, 1774-1841 (1831)
"E. and N. w., making 100 square arpents given them as a gratification on account
of the lands they gave being of greater value by their contiguousness to ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"Continuity lies in contiguousness of experience, reality in experience as we use it.
Manyness in oneness is but one of the data to be met like any other. ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"... their contiguousness to the aristocratic class materializes them, as it does
the class of newly- enriched people. The most palpable action is on the ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1879)
"the pressure and to the contiguousness of the slough to the aneurism rallier than
to the effect of a passive clot, as no sac complication has yet been ..."
6. Present Philosophical Tendencies: A Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism by Ralph Barton Perry (1912)
"... "contiguousness," "likeness," "nearness" or "simultaneous-
ness," "in-ness," "on-ness," "for-ness," "with-ness," and finally mere "and-ness. ..."
7. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Meeting so as to touch ; bordering upon contiguousness, (kcn-tig'-n-us-nes) n.
«. Close connection. CONTINENCE, tton'-te-nense) in.«. ..."
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