distance
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5.4
- noun
- /ˈdɪstəns/
:
distanciamiento
- The problem is you have no distance from your emotions.
- keep one's distance
- emotional distance
- maintain distance
People now, the problem now is we don't have distance from that social realm.
- People now, the problem now is we don't have distance from that social realm.
- All of those things are ways to give yourself distance from having to feel the feelings.
- And that geography can make it easier to maintain distance and boundaries.
- And everybody around Trump has spent this entire week trying to put distance between Trump and Putin.
- So it helps to get that distance from it.
- That woman is putting her at a distance from himself.
- I I actually wanted to keep a bit of distance in in.
- The people lived through it, and the problem is distance from us and strangeness.
- And so I personally find that distance and personal time is critical.
- Oh, peace over drama and distance over disrespect.
- I, we perceive the distance between my being and my life.
Examples
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This seems to create a real psychological distance between yourself and your problem.
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And so I... I put walls up, and I kept people at a distance.
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I have spent all my life trying to get distance from other people.
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And so I personally find that distance and personal time is critical.
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Somebody with some distance can be very objective.
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We talked more, and he was troubled by our distance, what we had become in two decades.
Fiction book (1990) -
People now, the problem now is we don't have distance from that social realm.
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Well, if Dolarhyde is really as moody as you say he is... maybe you ought to keep some distance.
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After all, in authoritarian societies, the distance between the ruler and the ruled is quite great.
Academic text (1991) -
After the argument, she felt a sense of distance from her friends, choosing to be alone for a while.
Synonyms
172
3.7
A state of being alone and cut off from other people physically or emotionally
74
2.5
A space between two things that keeps them apart
30
7.4
Feeling of being alone and separate from other people
21
6.1
A lack of emotional involvement with people or situations
9
4.2
Being separate from people, things, or contact, for example losing internet
8
7.8
A feeling of no longer being close to someone
4
7.2
A feeling of being distant from other people and not friendly
1
6.3
A distant, not friendly manner that keeps others away
1
6.7
A state of being separate from other people
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
8.5
Average of the farthest and nearest distances of a planet or satellite from the body it orbits
- Specialized
1
9.9
The shortest distance from a radio transmitter where radio waves bounced by the ionosphere can be picked up
- Specialized
The angle between two objects as seen from one place, measured in degrees
- Specialized
The distance from a lens or mirror to the point where parallel light rays meet
- Specialized
Distance from the camera lens to the nearest point that looks sharp when the lens is focused very far away
How Distant
Surface Forms
Etymology
Distance comes from Latin distare 'to stand apart', and that image fits feelings too. So when people have a 'distance' between them it means they keep themselves apart or are not close emotionally.