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[kon-ti-gyoo-i-tee]

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noun, plural con·ti·gu·i·ties.

the state of being contiguous; contact or proximity.

a series of things in continuous connection; a continuous mass or extent.

Origin:
1635–45; < Late Latin contiguitās. See contiguous, -ity

Related forms

non·con·ti·gu·i·ty, noun, plural non·con·ti·gu·i·ties.

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But this grows from an earlier, unbreakable foundation of contiguity.

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contiguous (kənˈtɪɡjʊəs)

—*adj*
1.	touching along the side or boundary; in contact
2.	physically adjacent; neighbouring
3.	preceding or following in time

[C17: from Latin contiguus, from contingere to touch; see contact]

contiguity

—n

con'tiguousness

—n

con'tiguously

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

contiguity

1640s, from L. contiguitas, from contiguus (see contiguous).

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contiguity con·ti·gu·i·ty (kŏn'tĭ-gy&oomacr;'ĭ-tē)
n.
The state of being contiguous.

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"Notwithstanding the universal barrenness, and the contiguity of the desert, I never saw an autumnal landscape so beautifully painted as this was. It was like the richest rug imaginable spread over an uneven surface; no damask nor velvet, nor Tyrian dye or stuffs, nor the work of any loom, could ever match it. There was the incredibly bright red of the huckleberry, and the reddish brown of the bayberry, mingled with the bright and living green of small pitch pines, and also the duller green of the bayberry, boxberry, and plum, the yellowish green of the shrub oaks, and the various golden and yellow and fawn-colored tints of the birch and maple and aspen, each making its own figure, and, in the midst, the few yellow sand-slides on the sides of the hills looked like the white floor seen through rents in the rug. Coming from the country as I did, and many autumnal woods I had seen, this was perhaps the most novel and remarkable sight that I saw on the Cape. Probably the brightness of the tints was enhanced by contrast with the sand which surrounded this tract."

-Henry David Thoreau

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