CONTIGUITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The attribute of being so near as to be touching

Synonyms:

adjacency; contiguity; contiguousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("contiguity" is a kind of...):

closeness; nearness (the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance)

Derivation:

contiguous (very close or connected in space or time)

contiguous (having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching)

contiguous (connecting without a break; within a common boundary)