1. (n.) Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity.

2. (n.) Nearness in time.

3. (n.) Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity.

accord addition adjunct affairs affiliation affinity agnation alliance ancestry approach approximation assemblage association blood blood relationship bond brotherhood brothership closeness cognation combination common ancestry common descent confines connectedness connection consanguinity contiguity contiguousness contrariety convergence cousinhood cousinship dealings deduction disjunction enation environs fatherhood filiation foreground fraternity homology immediacy immediate foreground intercourse intimacy junction kindred kinship liaison link linkage linking maternity matrilineage matriliny matrisib matrocliny motherhood mutual attraction nearness neighborhood nighness paternity patrilineage patriliny patrisib patrocliny precinct proximity purlieus rapport relatedness relation relations relationship sibship similarity sisterhood sistership sympathy tie tie-in ties of blood union vicinage vicinity