distancing

The process of becoming or making distant.

Noun

  1. The process of becoming or making distant.
    • If you were apprehensive, you were in the good company of Dylan aficionados still grappling with the trickster mystique of the 66-year-old singer-songwriter who see the Pulitzer as another chapter in his complicated...
  2. Ellipsis of social distancing.
    • distancing laws
    • new distancing rules
    • As of today, the rationale for deploying the distancing measure in public is that COVID-19 spreads through means such as touching, coughing and sneezing. - 2021 January 24, Kristine Sørensen et al., “Rebranding social...

Forms

distancings

Derived

comprehensive distancing distancing effect physical distancing social distancing

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of distance