proxemic

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːmɪk

Adjective

proxemic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to proxemics.
   • 1995, Donald Lateiner, Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic, page 120:

     Begger and lord, Odysseus, in carefully constructed sequence, passes through Hall's four proxemic, or social distances: public (nonacquainted) beggar, social guest of Eumaios, personal friend of Penelope, and, revealed at last as Odysseus, Penelope's husband and intimate bedmate.