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Keeping (oneself) aloof
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distancing
Word definitions for distancing in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Distancing is a concept arising from the work of developmental psychologists Heinz Werner and Bernard Kaplan . Distancing describes the process by which psychologists help a person establish their own individuality through understanding their separateness ...
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n. The process of becoming distant. vb. (present participle of distance English)
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distance \Dis"tance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distanced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Distancing .] To place at a distance or remotely. I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles distanced thence. --Fuller. To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem ...
Usage examples of distancing.
Although he knew she would have argued to the contrary, pointing out with that chilly, distancing manner she almost always adopted towards him these days that since she was no longer a part of his life, nor he of hers, there was no reason or purpose to have him hold any views about anything she did, he was quite extraordinarily proud of her and all that she had achieved, not just in establishing her business and turning it into such a successful venture, but he was proud of her and for her in many other ways, as well.
It was hard to focus my vision, through the grayness, through a peculiar distancing effect.
Perhaps it was only my present distancing from the vicinity of its occurrence that had helped to clear my mind.
Grey Hair, with his rifle, was in the middle of the room, distancing himself from it.
She admitted to Doctor Kenny that without that distancing it was hard to keep working without strong feelings getting in the way of efficiency.
He was distancing himself from her, maybe hoping she'd leave him behind with the others.
The odd distancing Kathleen experienced was obliterated by a sense of tremendous loss, the loss of Amariyah.
She looked over the tiers and then pulled Tolocamp off to one side, distancing herself from us, I'd no doubt.
He also made plain that he was distancing himself from Sigomal and Begamon.
This, too, is a useful and legitimate (if partial) inquiry (a Right-Hand approach that depends upon an objective, distancing stance and a relatively detached observer).
Instead of embrace, there was all too often a distancing gone mad, disengagement gone extreme, alienation and repression and dissociationall out of an understandable but ultimately insane aversion to anything that looked like "heteronomy.
Hermeneutics focused on the signifieds (LH), which could only be grasped from within by empathic participation, and structuralism focused on the signifiers (RH), which can best be approached in a distancing stance of exterior study.
The Morgawr walked around, looking at everything carefully, distancing himself from the rest of the party as he did so.
He wanted to believe it was the latter, but try as he might he could not come to terms with her seeming betrayal of him when he was captured or her clear distancing from him since.
Everything about him was so revolting to her that it was impossible to think of doing anything other than distancing herself in any way she could.