Meaning and example

the property of being close together

The passage used "propinquity" to mean the property of being close together.

Plain-English interpretation

A prevalence score of -0.242 places propinquity in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 40.4% of people in the source dataset.

Related words

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Similar-prevalence words

mentationVery rare
Known by
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the process of using your mind to consider something carefully

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only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

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an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge

peccaryVery rare
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Source attribution

Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.

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