Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The study of the cultural, behavioral, and sociological aspects of spatial distances between individuals.

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  • noun The study of the effects of the physical distance between people in different cultures and societies

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  • noun the study of spatial distances between individuals in different cultures and situations

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[prox(imity) + -emics (as in phonemics).]

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Examples

  • The anthropologist, Edward Hall, coined the word "proxemics" to describe phenomena like territoriality among office workers.

    Forbes.com: News Carol Kinsey Goman 2011

  • The anthropologist, Edward Hall, coined the word "proxemics" to describe phenomena like territoriality among office workers.

    Forbes.com: News Carol Kinsey Goman 2011

  • Hall developed observations like this into a field called proxemics, the analysis of how human beings collectively inhabit space.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • Hall developed observations like this into a field called proxemics, the analysis of how human beings collectively inhabit space.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • This skill set, referred to as proxemics, provides another clear example of a Zero Order Skill.

    It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005

  • This skill set, referred to as proxemics, provides another clear example of a Zero Order Skill.

    It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005

  • This skill set, referred to as proxemics, provides another clear example of a Zero Order Skill.

    It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005

  • This skill set, referred to as proxemics, provides another clear example of a Zero Order Skill.

    It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005

  • He allies Montaigne's acute sense of the meaning of human proximity to "proxemics", "the anthropology of people's relationships to each other in space" invented in the Sixties.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • "proxemics" measures how far apart people like to be when conducting different kinds of conversation.

    BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition 2009

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