proxemic

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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.