[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being contiguous; contiguity.
1622–62. Heylin, Cosmogr., IV. (1682), 43. This country in regard of its contiguousness … to the other Libya.
1639. Fuller, Holy War, V. xxvii. 276. Infected with more misery than they have already, by contiguousness to others.
