distancing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of distance

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of social distancing.

   “distancing laws”

   “new distancing rules”

   “As of today, the rationale for deploying the distancing measure in public is that COVID-19 spreads through means such as touching, coughing and sneezing.”