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proxemics
noun
(used with a singular verb)
the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
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It is hard to find a more apposite word right now than proxemics 鈥渢he study of the spatial requirements for humans and the effects of population density on behavior and social interaction.鈥� Proxemics is made up of prox(imity) and –emics, which is extracted from (phon)emics 鈥渢he study of the system of sounds of a language,鈥� or is formed on the pattern of a word like phonemics. Proxemics was coined in 1973 by the U.S anthropologist Edward Hall.
how is proxemics used?
We鈥檙e likely to see a recalibration of the bubble of personal space we keep around ourselves鈥攁 field scientists call proxemics.
Proxemics, however, is not merely about interactions between individuals. On a larger scale, it helps developers, urban planners and executives in various industries understand how people move through public spaces, how they shop, even what type of restaurants they find most comfortable.
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solace
noun
something that gives comfort, consolation, or relief.
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Solace, both noun and verb, comes from Old French noun solas, solaz and the Old French verb solacier, solasier from the Latin noun 蝉艒濒腻肠颈耻尘 (also spelled 蝉艒濒腻迟颈耻尘) 鈥渞elief in sorrow or misfortune, comfort,鈥� a derivative of the verb 蝉艒濒腻谤墨 鈥渢o give comfort, console.鈥� One of the meanings of 蝉艒濒腻肠颈耻尘 is 鈥渃ompensation, indemnification,鈥� found in the writings of the Imperial Roman jurist Ulpian. This legal sense of 蝉艒濒腻迟颈耻尘 (spelled solatium) has existed in English since the 19th century. The noun and verb solace entered English around the same time, in the late 13th century.
how is solace used?
Here it shows the attributes that have enabled medicine as a science steadily to push the frontier of knowledge farther into the area once marked unknown, and have kept medicine as an art of human relations a constant solace to men in pain, fear, and sorrow.
The only solace of the day was to make food鈥攖he basic things, soups, simple pastas and bread.
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peregrinate
verb (used without object)
to travel or journey, especially to walk on foot.
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The verb peregrinate, 鈥渢o go on a journey on foot,鈥� comes from Latin 辫别谤别驳谤墨苍腻迟耻蝉, the past participle of 辫别谤别驳谤墨苍腻谤墨 鈥渢o travel abroad,鈥� a derivative of the adjective and noun 辫别谤别驳谤墨苍耻蝉 鈥渁lien, foreign; an alien, a foreigner,鈥� formed from the adverb 辫别谤别驳谤墨 鈥渁way from home, abroad.鈥� In Roman republican and imperial law, a 辫别谤别驳谤墨苍耻蝉 was a free person or a free community that did not have Roman citizenship (the vast majority of the inhabitants of the Empire). Late Latin 辫别谤别驳谤墨苍耻蝉 became 辫别濒别驳谤墨苍耻蝉 by a common dissimilation (compare the spelling colonel with its pronunciation). 笔别濒别驳谤墨苍耻蝉 has its own history, becoming the source of pilgrim. Peregrinate entered English in the late 16th century.
how is peregrinate used?
Regardless of how they get there, they seem to peregrinate in a fog, for which they can hardly be blamed …
"Welcome to 袘褉邪泄褌芯薪 袘懈褔, Brooklyn," New York Times, December 14, 2018
I had peregrinated further to the little hamlet of B眉rglen, and peeped into the frescoed chapel which commemorates the hero鈥檚 natal scene.
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