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noun
The study of the effects of the physical distance between people in different cultures and societies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
the study of spatial distances between individuals in different cultures and situations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: social science
History
From prox- (“proximity, nearness”) + -eme + -ic + -s. Clipping of proximity + modeling on phonemics. Coined by American anthropologist Edward T. Hall in 1963.
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