| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class II. Words Relating to Space |
| Section II. Dimensions |
| 1. General Dimensions |
| 197. Nearness. |
| NOUN: | NEARNESS &c. adj.; proximity, propinquity; vicinity, vicinage; neighborhood, adjacency, nighness [archaic], appropinquity [rare]; contiguity [See Contiguity]. short -distance, - step, - cut; earshot, close quarters, range, stone’s throw; bowshot, gunshot, pistol shot; hair’s breadth, span. PURLIEUS, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours [F.], suburbs, faubourg [F.], confines, banlieue [F.], borderland; whereabouts. BYSTANDER, spectator; neighbor or neighbour, borderer. APPROACH [See Approach]; convergence [See Convergence]; perihelion. |
| VERB: | BE NEAR &c. adj.; adjoin, abut, neighbor, hang about, trench on; border upon, verge upon; stand by, approximate, tread on the heels of, cling to, clasp, hug; huddle; hang upon the skirts of, hover over; burn [colloq.]. bring or draw near [See Approach]; converge [See Convergence]; crowd [See Assemblage]; place side by side &c. adv. |
| ADJECTIVE: | NEAR, nigh; close -, near- at hand; close, neighboring, vicinal, propinquent [rare]; bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining; proximate, proximal; at hand, warm [colloq.], handy; near the mark, near run; home, intimate. |
| ADVERB: | NEAR, nigh; hard by, fast by; close to, close upon; hard upon; at the point of; next door to; within -reach - call, - hearing, - earshot, - range; within an ace of; but a step, not far from, at no great distance; on the -verge, - brink, - skirts- of; in the environs &c. n.; at one’s -door, - feet, - elbow, - finger’s end, - side; on the tip of one’s tongue; under one’s nose; within a stone’s throw &c. n.; in sight of, in presence of; at close quarters; cheek by jowl, cheek to cheek, shoulder to shoulder; beside, alongside, side by side, tête-à-tête [F.]; in juxtaposition (touching) [See Contiguity]; yardarm to yardarm; at the heels of; on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to; in the way. ABOUT; hereabout or hereabouts, thereabout or thereabouts; roughly, in round numbers; approximately, approximatively; as good as, well-nigh. |
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