a surrounding or nearby region
"the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"
"it is a rugged locality"
"he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"
"I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods"
proximity; the state of being near.
"The small shop was located in close vicinity to the train station, making it easy for commuters to grab a snack before their journey."
In plain English: Vicinity means the area close to a specific place.
"The accident happened in the vicinity of our house, so we heard all the commotion clearly."
The word vicinity comes from the Latin vicinitas, meaning "neighborhood," which was derived from vicinus ("neighbor") and ultimately traces back to vicus ("village"). It entered English through French, retaining its original sense of a place near or surrounding something.