contiguousness
State of bordering
Contiguousness is the quality of being contiguous—sharing a boundary or touching without interruption.
The term appears in geographic and spatial contexts: the contiguousness of the forty-eight states, the contiguousness of the properties made a merger attractive.
Contiguity is a more common noun for the same concept.
State of being close
- closenessState of proximity
- immediacyQuality of being direct
- vicinityNearby surrounding area
- propinquityCloseness in space or relation
neighboring · juxtaposition · handiness · accessibility · localness · approachability
Load-bearing end structure
- juxtapositionAdjacent contrasting placement
- tangencySingle-point touching state
- adjoiningSharing a border
- borderingSharing an edge with
flanking · alignment · interface · juncture · meeting · conjunction · apposition · edging
State of being whole
- consecutivenessUnbroken sequential order
- connectednessState of being linked
- uninterruptednessState without breaks
- seamlessnessLack of visible transitions
linkage · concatenation · sequence · succession · progression · chain · continuum · cohesion
nearness
State of being close
propinquity · neighboring · juxtaposition · handiness · accessibility · localness · approachability
abutment
Load-bearing end structure
- juxtapositionAdjacent contrasting placement
- tangencySingle-point touching state
- adjoiningSharing a border
bordering · flanking · alignment · interface · juncture · meeting · conjunction · apposition · edging · skirting
unbrokenness
State of being whole
- consecutivenessUnbroken sequential order
- connectednessState of being linked
- uninterruptednessState without breaks
seamlessness · linkage · concatenation · sequence · succession · progression · chain · continuum · cohesion · flow
border
Outer edge or limit
margin · fringe · verge · rim · limit · demarcation · frontier · confine · extremity · borderland
contiguousnessdistance
Space between two points
separation · remoteness · disconnection · disjunction · detachment
contiguousnessdiscontinuity
Break in continuity
fragmentation · disconnectedness · disjointedness · interruption · brokenness
contact, contiguous, contiguity, contiguously, noncontiguous