distancings
Acts of withdrawing
Distancings are instances of creating physical or emotional separation.
The word gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic, when social distancings described measures to reduce disease transmission.
More abstractly, distancings can be psychological withdrawals—the gradual distancings between old friends or a character's emotional removal from events.
The plural emphasizes discrete acts or patterns rather than a continuous state.
Troops assigned apart
- withdrawalsRemoval of deposited funds
- coldnessLow temperature state
- aloofnessEmotional unavailability, standoffishness
- remotenessQuality of being faraway
disengagements · numbness · indifference · reservedness · guardedness · boundaries · walls · disconnections
Acts of dividing apart
- spacingsDistances between adjacent items
- gapsUnfilled spaces between
- intervalsGaps between events
- removalsActs of taking away
dispersals · scatterings · partings · divergences · repositionings · relocations · placements · arrangements
Acts of dividing apart
- isolationsStates of being apart
- withdrawalsRemoval of deposited funds
- estrangementsStates of relational distance
- alienationsEmotional separations from others
detachments · removals · spacings · avoidances · quarantines · seclusions · buffers · barriers
Statements denying responsibility
- qualificationsProof of competence
- hedgingsCautious limiting of statements
- disavowalsRefusals to acknowledge
- dissociationsMental breaks from experience
repudiations · denials · retractions · clarifications · caveats · separations · distinctions · differentiations
detachments
Troops assigned apart
- withdrawalsRemoval of deposited funds
- coldnessLow temperature state
- aloofnessEmotional unavailability, standoffishness
remoteness · disengagements · numbness · indifference · reservedness · guardedness · boundaries · walls · disconnections · dissociations
separations
Acts of dividing apart
removals · dispersals · scatterings · partings · divergences · repositionings · relocations · placements · arrangements · configurations
separations
Acts of dividing apart
- isolationsStates of being apart
- withdrawalsRemoval of deposited funds
- estrangementsStates of relational distance
alienations · detachments · removals · spacings · avoidances · quarantines · seclusions · buffers · barriers · protocols
disclaimers
Statements denying responsibility
- qualificationsProof of competence
- hedgingsCautious limiting of statements
- disavowalsRefusals to acknowledge
dissociations · repudiations · denials · retractions · clarifications · caveats · separations · distinctions · differentiations
distancingsapproaches
Ways of doing something
closings · convergences · comings · arrivals · encroachments
distancingsengagements
Binding commitments or meetings
bondings · attachments · connections · rapprochements · reconciliations
distancingsassociations
Mental or organizational links
affiliations · alignments · identifications · endorsements · acceptances
- social distancingDeliberate interpersonal spacing