distancing

English

Verb

distancing

  1. present participle of distance

Noun

distancing (plural distancings)

  1. The process of becoming distant.
    • 2008 April 13, Dave Itzkoff, “Bob Dylan Finally Gets His Pulitzer. His What?”, in New York Times‎:
      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 history with the establishment, an ongoing dance of distancings and détentes.
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