ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

197. Nearness -- N. nearness &c adj.; proximity, propinquity; vicinity, vicinage;
neighborhood, adjacency; contiguity &c 199.
short distance, short step, short cut; earshot, close quarters, stone's throw; bow shot,
gun shot, pistol shot; hair's breadth, span.
purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours [Fr.], suburbs, confines,
banlieue † , borderland; whereabouts.
bystander; neighbor, borderer † .
approach &c 286; convergence &c 290; perihelion.
V. be near &c adj.; adjoin, 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.
touch &c 199; bring near, draw near &c 286; converge &c 290; crowd &c 72; place
side by side &c adv..
Adj. near, nigh; close at hand, near at hand; close, neighboring; bordering upon,
contiguous, adjacent, adjoining; proximate, proximal; at hand, handy; near the mark, near
run; home, intimate.
Adv. near, nigh; hard by, fast by; close to, close upon; hard upon; at the point of; next
door to; within reach, within call, within hearing, within earshot; within an ace of; but a
step, not far from, at no great distance; on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of; in
the environs &c n.; at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at
one's 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 jole † , cheek by jowl; beside,
alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete; in juxtaposition &c (touching) 199; yardarm to
yardarm, at the heels of; on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to;
in the way.
about; hereabouts, thereabouts; roughly, in round numbers; approximately,
approximatively † ; as good as, well-nigh.
198. Interval -- N. interval, interspace † ; separation &c 44; break, gap, opening; hole &c
260; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh,
crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure † , rift, flaw, breach,
rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.
gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith † , strait, gully;
pass; furrow &c 259; abra † ; barranca † , barranco † ; clove [U.S.], gulch [U.S.], notch
[U.S.]; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime [Lat.], hiatus valde deflendus [Lat.]; parenthesis &c
(interjacence) 228 [Obs.]; void &c (absence) 187; incompleteness &c 53.
[interval of time] period &c 108; interim (time) 106.
V. gape &c (open) 260.
Adj. with an interval, far between; breachy † , rimose † , rimulose † .
Adv. at intervals &c (discontinuously) 70; longo intervallo [It].
199. Contiguity -- N. contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal † , juxtaposition;
abutment, osculation; meeting, appulse † , rencontre † , rencounter † , syzygy [Astr.],
coincidence, coexistence; adhesion &c 46; touching &c v.. (touch) 379.
borderland; frontier &c (limit) 233; tangent; abutter.