social contact
Meeting with others
Social contact is interaction or communication with other people.
The term often appears in discussions of isolation or wellbeing: Elderly people living alone may have limited social contact.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, reducing social contact became a public health measure.
The phrase emphasizes the basic human need for connection with others.
- firm handshakeTight palm-to-palm greeting
- handshakeMutual palm-gripping gesture
- speechOral communication ability
- touchPerceiving through physical contact
- emailDigital written communication
empathy · hug · conversation · compassion · proximity · text message · greeting · friendly wave · warm smile · face to face · trust · kiss · support · video call · intimacy · bonding · human connection · high-five
- acquaintancesacquaintance, casual friend, familiar face, nodding acquaintance, connection
- confinementcell, cage, prison, jail, imprisonment
- needsfood, water, shelter, sleep, air
social contactisolation
Complete separation from others
solitude · social isolation · loneliness · seclusion · hermitage
social contactwithdrawal
Act of taking away
reclusion · social withdrawal · antisocial behavior · avoidance · retreating
social contactaloneness
State of being solitary
solitude · being alone · solitariness · privacy · insularity
social, contact, socially, sociable, sociability, socialize, socialization, socialism, socialist