The region close around a person or thing

Usage examples of proximity.

Though perplexing to his palate, it was anything but unpleasant, despite the immediate and unsettling proximity of its ambulatory alien origins.

Captain Hull knew the difficulty of the task he had undertaken, he was alive to the importance of making his approach to the whale from the leeward, so that there should be no sound to apprize the creature of the proximity of the boat.

I think the proximity of wine a matter of much more importance than the longinquity of water.

Witness the caravan they had passed, bones, naked bones in the sand, and a leader who should have known his business had miscalled the storm and the proximity of safety.

Victoria Morgenstern seemed to have been affected by the proximity of so many uniforms.

When the class was over, Paul decided to remain seated until Patina had exited the room, because his proximity to the doorway would then allow him to observe her at a distance of only two or three-feet.

At this point we can see both the proximity and the specific difference between the concepts of patrimonial state and national state.

Baltimore are prattlers, seeming to talk for the pleasure of hearing the sound of their voices, which are soft and slurry, doubtless from living in close proximity to Negroes.

And when the parties approached each other within some predefined radius-say a city block, or less-I would arrange for both implants to inform their wearers of the proximity of the other, via the deep neural connections I had already sewn.

A spear of excitement shot through his loins at the proximity of her reddening lips, her flashing eyes and soft breasts.

She had never been in the mainstream of Yedo politics, but the proximity of Hiraga and learning about the shishi from him--and secrets about him and Ori from the shoya--had given her an appetite.

Proximity to the infrared glow of the supergiant gave it a perpetual tropical climate, with the warm, wet air of the nearside constantly on the move, rushing around to the farside where it cooled, radiating its thermal load away into space, and then returning via storms which traversed the poles.

The Gezary was a sleek vessel with three nacelles in close proximity, like a trimaran sailing ship.

She felt a strong, upward welling breeze on her face, signifying the proximity of an unclimbable sheer drop.

When the assembly dispersed, I followed their Autocrat at his desire into his private apartments, where, resting among a pile of cushions and motioning me to take a place in immediate proximity to himself, he continued the conversation in a tone and manner so exactly the same as that he had employed in public as to show that the latter was not assumed for purposes of monarchical stage-play, but was the natural expression of his own character as developed under the influence of unlimited and uncontradicted power.