adjacency

noun

ad·​ja·​cen·​cy ə-ˈjā-sᵊn(t)-sē How to pronounce adjacency (audio)
plural adjacencies
1
: something that is adjacent
2
: the quality or state of being adjacent : contiguity

Examples of adjacency in a Sentence

environmentalists are concerned about the proposed shopping plaza's adjacency to the river
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Move from traditional audience development activities about volume to an audience insight function that focuses on behaviors and unmet needs to find adjacencies. Dan Gardner, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025 The rest of the crowd, seen through the roving, irony-hungry cable-news cameras, was all farcical adjacency: Jared Kushner sat not far from Zuckerberg, both shaking hands robotically and otherwise playacting at human social skills. Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025 Doc, meanwhile, makes a painful discovery: Through its COINTELPRO program, the FBI has turned countless hippies into informants and used their adjacency to politically radical groups to gather intel. Chris Stanton, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2024 However, the investment in Urban Legend marks Mondelēz’s first step into the fresh bakery sector in the UK, a move Gray described as a natural adjacency for the company. Douglas Yu, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for adjacency 

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from Medieval Latin adjacentia, going back to Late Latin, "adherence," noun derivative of Latin adjacent-, adjacens adjacent

First Known Use

1640, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Time Traveler
The first known use of adjacency was in 1640

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“Adjacency.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adjacency. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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