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    Propinquity refers to the physical or psychological proximity between people that leads to interpersonal attraction. It is one of the main factors in social psychology that influences attraction, as two people who are physically or psychologically closer are more likely to be attracted to each other than those who are more distant. Propinquity can describe physical proximity, a kinship, or similarity between individuals.

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    Propinquity refers to the physical or psychological proximity between people that leads to interpersonal attraction. It is one of the main factors in social psychology that influences attraction, as two people who are physically or psychologically closer are more likely to be attracted to each other than those who are more distant. Propinquity can describe physical proximity, a kinship, or similarity between individuals.

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    The sense of the word "propinquity" as given here is a specialized one.

    For a more general definition of the word, see propinquity in the Wiktionary. For the novel, see Propinquity (novel). In social psychology, propinquity (from Latin propinquitas, "nearness") is one of the main factors leading to interpersonal attraction. It refers to the physical or psychological proximity between people. Propinquity can mean physical proximity, a kinship between people, or a similarity in nature between things ("like-attractslike"). Two people living on the same floor of a building, for example, have a higher propinquity than those living on different floors, just as two people with similar political beliefs possess a higher propinquity than those whose beliefs strongly differ. Propinquity is also one of the factors, set out by Jeremy Bentham, used to measure the amount of (utilitarian) pleasure in a method known as felicific calculus.

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