单词 | distantiation |
释义 | distantiationn. The action or process of setting or keeping something at a distance, esp. of mentally or intellectually distancing oneself from an idea, feeling, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > putting or keeping at a distance distantiation1924 1924 Jrnl. Philos. 21 658 The human mind was to be conceived at a respectable distance from the entire flux of universal realities. It was to be conceived in terms of the safest distantiation from the world. 1963 E. H. Erikson Childhood & Society (ed. 2) iii. vii. 264 The counterpart of intimacy is distantiation. 1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideol. iii. 74 It is this distantiation of history, this absence of any particular historical ‘real’, which confers on literature its air of freedom. 2019 Arab Stud. Q. 41 142 Mahmoud believes he is creating a temporal distance, by the very distantiation of which the monster of the past is safely caged. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1924 |
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