Space and Vicinity

Space

Space noun - An extent or area available for or used up by some activity or thing.

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Vicinity and space are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Vicinity" instead a noun "Space".

Nearby Words: spacing, spacious, spaced, spaceship, spacer

Vicinity noun - An adjoining region or space.

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Space and vicinity are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Space" instead a noun "Vicinity".

Nearby Word: vicinal

short	short space	short vicinity
entire	entire space	entire vicinity
local	local space	local vicinity
nearby	nearby space	nearby vicinity
Other adjectives: surrounding, nearest.

Star Trek Into Darkness follows its predecessor by having the Enterprise fall from the vicinity of the Moon into Earth's atmosphere in the space of a few minutes.

Source: Sci Fi Writers Have / No Sense Of Distance
Explosive Decompression: A hit on an outer hull will likely result in a hull breach, causing anyone in the immediate vicinity to be sucked out into space.

Source: Video Game / Star Command
In the Apprentice Adept series, magic is a natural force generated by Protonite/Phazite, a substance formed in the vicinity of a certain kind of Negative Space Wedgie and found abundantly only on Proton/Phaze; the Functional Magic itself only works on the Phaze side and where the two worlds overlap.

Source: Background Magic Field

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