Proxemics (noun)
prok-sem-iks
The branch of knowledge that deals with the amount of space that people feel it necessary to set between themselves and others.
1960s from proximity, on the pattern of words such as phonemics.
Example sentences
“A study in the social effects of personal proxemics”
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