Definition of "contiguity" [con•ti•gu•i•ty]

• The state of being contiguous. (noun)
• A continuous mass or series. (noun)

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• "Proximity or contiguity is a rhetorical device among others; any writer of modest ability, let alone Proust, attends to various sorts of associations and crosspollinations (I have just attended to double-s sounds)."
• "There is an advantage in contiguity-chronological and geographical."
• "This differs from association by contiguity, which is a repetition of experience, and from association by resemblance in the intellectual sense."