👉 Proxeny is a term used in the context of philosophy and linguistics, specifically related to the relationship between words in a sentence. In linguistics, it refers to the distance or length of a word from its root or base, often measured in millimeters or meters. In other words, proxeny can be defined as the measure of how far a word is from its root or base and how long it is relative to these distances. For example, if a word has three syllables (