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Propinquity is the fact of being near — near in place, or near in family. Two rooms on the same floor have propinquity; two cousins have it too, because they share blood. Writers have also stretched it toward nearness of feeling, but that use is less common and a bit old. Though actually, English already has easy words for this: nearness, closeness, proximity. Propinquity lives in law, sociology, and rather literary prose. Lawyers have used it when the question is how closely related are these two people, especially if money or marriage is in play. You will almost never hear it in a shop. If you use it in casual talk, people may think you are quoting a textbook.
接近；近親關係（文言）
組成From propinqu(ent) + -ity, from Middle English propinquite, from Middle French propinquité or Latin propinquitās, from propinquus (neighbouring), from prop(e) (near) + (h)inc (hence) + -uus.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
propinquitynoun/pɹəˈpɪŋ.kwɪ.ti/
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literaryNearness or proximity
- Some experimental spirits could not resist the diversion of throwing Varick and his former wife together, and there were those who thought he found a zest in the propinquity.
- Yet, never before in human history has it been so easy to communicate across long distances. Never before have men been able to maintain intimate and continuing contact with others across thousands of miles; never has intimacy been so independent of spatial propinquity.
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literaryAffiliation or similarity.
- Heere I diſclaime all my Paternall care, / Propinquity and property of blood, / And as a ſtranger to my heart and me, / Hold thee from this for euer.
- What is impossible is not the propinquity of the things listed, but the very site on which their propinquity would be possible.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。