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vicinality

vicinality noun: adjacency.

Noun

vicinality (uncountable)

  1. (rare) adjacency
  2. The presence of vicinal substituents in a molecule

Origin of vicinality

From vicinal + -ity.

Questions about vicinality

What does vicinality mean?
Vicinality means adjacency.
What part of speech is vicinality?
Vicinality is a noun.

Words near vicinality in the dictionary

  1. vicinage
  2. vicinages
  3. vicinal
  4. vicinal diol
  5. vicinal diols
  6. vicinality
  7. vicinally
  8. vicine
  9. vicing
  10. vicinin
  11. vicinine

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