emotional distance

collocation in English

meaningsofemotionalanddistance

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emotional
adjective
uk
/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən.əl/us
/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən.əl/
relating to ...
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distance
noun
uk
/ˈdɪs.təns/us
/ˈdɪs.təns/
the amount of space between ...
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(Definition ofemotionalanddistancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofemotional distance

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Managerialist discourse is itself notably disembodied, drawing on traditions like economics, accountancy, organisation and methods that prize abstraction andemotionaldistance.
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Perhaps the greateremotionaldistancefemale young adults experience in their relationships with fathers makes acceptance from fathers all the more important.
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High scores reflectemotionaldistancebetween at least two members of the triad.
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Both cure, which aims for physical recovery, and custodial maintenance, that is concerned with cleanliness and order, are provided throughemotionaldistance.
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She suggests that theemotionaldistancebetween performer and audience is reduced by a semblance of reality, and increased by separation from reality.
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But the issue ofemotionaldistanceis more complex in pantomime than this formulation suggests.
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The feeling of this ideological andemotionaldistancewas testified to (although usually much later) by many radical intellectuals who played an active role in 1956.
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By increasing the tension between the characters, emphasising theiremotionaldistancefrom one another, music becomes the profoundest expression of character, the carrier of dramatic action.
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Overwhelmingly, and regardless of their level of informal contact with professors between visits, students felt positive about their teachers' physical andemotionaldistancefrom the college.
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It illustrates theemotionaldistancebetween those reading and writing the popular accounts of crimes solved through forensics, and the human beings that are die subject of those accounts.
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Often, adolescents from the same family adopt differing lifestyles which further contributes toemotionaldistancebetween one another.
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The intellectual specialization of this archetype createsemotionaldistanceand can predispose relationships to a lack of emotional reciprocity and consequent dysfunctions.
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The clarity of the former's surroundings and the ambiguity of the latter's have been interpreted as expressive of theiremotionaldistance.
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The role of an affair is to createemotionaldistancein the marriage.
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He is gruff, straightforward, cynical, and hard-edged, and tends to keep everyone at anemotionaldistance.
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For a director to deliberately avoid close-ups may create in the audience anemotionaldistancefrom the subject matter.
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The ensuing hardship combined with theemotionaldistanceof husband and wife to make the household a tense place for the children.
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When confronted about hisemotionaldistance, he states that caring makes a person appear weak, and that a lawyer who shows feelings gets trampled.
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While young adolescents often provide one another with warmth and support, this period of development is also marked by increased conflict andemotionaldistance.
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