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distancings

distancings is the plural of distancing.

Meaning of distancing

Noun

distancing (countable and uncountable, plural distancings)

  1. The process of becoming or making distant.
    • 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.2008 April 13, Dave Itzkoff, “Bob Dylan Finally Gets His Pulitzer. His What?”, in New York Times

Questions about distancings

What is distancings the plural of?
Distancings is the plural of distancing.

Words near distancings in the dictionary

  1. distanceth
  2. distancing
  3. distancing effect
  4. distancing effects
  5. distancingly
  6. distancings
  7. distancy
  8. distannide
  9. distannides
  10. distannoxane
  11. distannoxanes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: distancings (page history and authors); distancing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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