abutting

Sharing a boundary

Abutting means touching or sharing a boundary with something adjacent.

Properties abut when they border each other directly: The parking lot is on land abutting the church.

Roads, walls, or structures can abut, meeting without overlap or gap.

The word implies direct physical contact at an edge or boundary.

adjacent

touching

Evoking gentle emotion

adjoiningSharing a border
borderingSharing an edge with
flankingAt the sides of

contiguous · juxtaposed · side-by-side · beside · alongside · proximate · nearby · close · neighboring · tangent

boundary

edging

Decorative border material

fringingAdding decorative border
skirtingAvoiding by going around
boundingMoving by leaps

rimming · verging · borderline · peripheral · lateral · buttressing · encroaching · impinging · enclosing · demarcating

connection

joining

Linking into one

interfaceShared connection point
junctionPoint where things meet
interlockingEngaging by overlap

coupling · linkage · bonding · attachment · convergence · merging · intersecting · splicing · seamless · aligned

Categories

nearnessnear, nearby, close, adjacent, next to
adjacencyneighbor, border, touching, beside, contiguous
proximity wordscloseness, nearness, vicinity, adjacency, contiguity
location wordshere, there, where, north, south
proximitynear, close, nearby, nearness, proximity
land surveyingsurveyor, plat, boundary marker, bounds, boundary

Opposites

spatial proximity

abuttingdistant

Far away or aloof

apart · separate · remote · far · removed

connection/attachment

abuttingdisconnected

Separated from a source

unconnected · disjoined · separated · severed · unattached

Family

butt, buttress, abut, abutment, abutted, buttressed, abuts

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