Synonyms for vicinity
vɪˈsɪn ɪ tivicin·i·ty

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1. vicinity

   Synonyms:
   juxtaposition, neighborhood, nearness, proximity

   Antonyms:
   distance, remoteness, separation, removal

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1. vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woodsnoun

   a surrounding or nearby region

   "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods"

   Synonyms:
   neighbourhood, neighborhood, region, neck of the woods, locality

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1. vicinitynoun

   Synonyms:
   nearness, proximity

2. vicinitynoun

   Synonyms:
   neighborhood, vicinage

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1. vicinitynoun

   Synonyms:
   neighborhood, vicinage, nearness, propinquity, proximity

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1. List of paraphrases for "vicinity":

   proximity, near, nearby, neighbourhood, neighbourliness, neighborhood, closeness, close, neighbouring, moheet, adjacent

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1. Amit Shadman:

   Farmhouses during this period served as small settlements of sorts, whose inhabitants participated in processing agricultural produce, the numerous winepresses discovered in the vicinity of the settlement indicate the wine industry was the most important branch of agriculture in the region.

2. Kathrin Altwegg:

   Asteroids could well have had much more water than they have today, they have just lived in the vicinity of the sun for 4.6 billion years.

3. Amy Sanders:

   It has also not yet been determined if the motive was a hate crime, domestic terrorism, a personal act of violence against a specific individual, or other motive as there are numerous individuals and entities tied to the building in the vicinity of the explosion.

4. Alexis karpouzos:

   When one door opens, another closes. this is the eternity's circle, mistakes belongs to us, but not all, the fate mapped out for us to follow, but does not define our choices, beings of necessity and randomness, we're rattling over the abyss in the vicinity of dying stars

5. Steve Schmidt:

   The important thing is to quickly collect as many of the carcasses as possible, to prevent other birds from feeding on the infected birds, biologists observed about 20 eagles in the vicinity of some of the carcasses. Because of a delayed incubation period it is uncertain where these eagles might be located, if and when the avian cholera affects them.