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noun, plural vi·cin·i·ties.
- the area or region near or about a place; surrounding district; neighborhood: There are no stores in the vicinity of our house.
- state or fact of being near; proximity; propinquity: He was troubled by the vicinity of the nuclear testing area.
noun plural -ties
- a surrounding, adjacent, or nearby area; neighbourhood
- the fact or condition of being close in space or relationship
1560, “nearness in place,” from Latin vicinitas “of or pertaining to neighbors or a neighborhood,” from vicinus “neighbor, neighboring,” from vicus “group of houses, village,” related to the -wick, -wich in English place names, from PIE *weik- (see villa). Meaning “surrounding district” is first attested 1796.