social distance

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social distance (plural social distances)

1. (sociology) The distance between different social groups, e.g. in terms of class, ethnicity, gender-identity, sexual-identity, etc.
2. (proxemics) An appropriate distance for interactions among acquaintances during epidemics.

social distance (third-person singular simple present social distances, present participle social distancing, simple past and past participle social distanced)

1. (proxemics) To maintain a certain distance between at least two people to contain the spread of an infectious disease.

• social distancing (disease control)
• socially distant (disease control)

• diatonic scales

Borrowed from English social distance.

social distance f (uncountable)

1. social distancing