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2. situation, circumstances, conditions, environment, milieu; qualifying factors, state of affairs, facts,

contiguity, n. 1. adjacency, adjacence, juxtaposition, contiguousness, Obs.

attingency or

attingence, Obs.

attiguousness; nearness, closeness, proximity, proximateness, proximation, approximation, propinquity, vicinage.
2. contact, abuttal, abutment; union, conjunction, intersection; meeting, joining, touching, abutting; connecting, conjoining.
3. continuum, continuous or

unbroken mass or

stretch, continuous or

unbroken extent, expanse.

contiguous, adj. 1. touching, meeting, joining, conjoining, connecting, contactual, abutting, tangential, tangent, Obs.

attingent, Obs.

attiguous; bordering, skirting, edging, juxtapositional, juxtaposed, proximate, in close proximity, next to, Inf. right next to, Inf. next door to.
2. adjacent, near, nearby, close, close by, hand by, nigh, neighboring, converging, vicinal,

continence, n. 1. continency, chastity, celibacy, purity; virginity, virtue, innocence, innocency.
2. temperance, temperateness, moderation, moderateness, avoidance of extremes; restraint, selfrestraint, self-control; refrainment, refraining, forbearance, desistance; abstention, abstinence, nonindulgence, abstemiousness.
3. Puritanism, austerity, self-mortification, self deprivation, fasting; asceticism, self-denial, self-abnegation.
4. teetotalism, nephalism, sobriety, soberness; prohibition, blue-ribbonism; Rechabitism.

continent, n. 1. mainland, main, Latin, terra firma. -adj. 2. chaste, celibate, virgin, virginal; pure, untouched, undefiled; virtuous, innocent, good; pristine, uncorrupted, unsullied, stainless.
3. temperate, moderate, self-restrained, self controlled; refraining, forbearing, desisting; abstemious, abstinent, nonindulgent, dieting, fasting.
4. puritanical, puritan-like, austere, self-mortifying, self-depriving; ascetic, self-denying, self-abnegating.
5. teetotal, sober, not intoxicated or

drunk; prohibi-tionary, U.S.

dry, blue-ribbon.

contingency, n. 1. chance, mere chance, happy chance, fortuity, serendipity, happenstance, luck, fortune; odds, run of luck; uncertainty, fortuitousness, casualness, randomness, haphazardness, arbitrariness, accidentalness.
2. possibility, likelihood, eventuality; event, circumstance, occasion, situation, case, juncture, conjuncture; casualty, accident, emergency, exigency, exigence; predicament, quandary.
3. fluke, chance event, chance occurrence, happening, hap; freak accident, one in a million, twist of fate; bad luck or

fortune, stroke of bad luck or

fortune.
4. incidental, detail, small detail, minor detail, minu-tia, particular, point; aspect, facet, factor; respect, regard.
5. nonessential, unessential, inessential; extra, accessory, appurtenance, supplement; auxiliary, subsidiary, secondary; addition, addendum, appendage.

contingent, adj. 1. conditional, provisional, provisory, stipulatory; dependent on or

upon, depending, depending on, hanging on, hinging on; circumstantial, depending on circumstances; subject to, incident to, incidental to.
2. likely, possible, probable, incident; in the cards, on the books, in the air, in the wind, afloat, astir, afoot.
3. uncertain, indefinite, undetermined, unsettled, unestablished; open, up in the air, touch-and-go, borderline, hanging in the balance, SI.up for grabs; unpredictable, unforeseeable; unaccountable, undeterminable, unascertainable, undivinable.
4. chance, fortuitous, serendipitous, aleatory,
Inf.

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