social distance

English

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Noun

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.

Translations

distance between social groups

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 社會距離／社会距离 (shèhuì jùlí)

• Finnish: sosiaalinen etäisyys
• French: espace vital m
• Georgian: სოციალური მანძილი (socialuri manʒili), სოციალური დისტანცია (socialuri disṭancia)
• German: soziale Distanz f
• Indonesian: pembatasan sosial
• Italian: distanza sociale f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dûrahiya civakî (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: социалдык аралык (sotsialdık aralık)
• Malay: penjarakan sosial (ms)
• Persian: فاصله اجتماعی (fa)
• Polish: dystans społeczny m
• Portuguese: distância social f
• Serbo-Croatian: социјална дистанца f
• Ukrainian: соціальна дистанція (uk) f (socialʹna dystancija)
• Vietnamese: khoảng cách xã hội, sự cách ly xã hội

appropriate distance for interactions among acquaintances during epidemics

• Danish: social afstand c, social distance c
• Georgian: პიროვნებათშორისი დისტანცია (ṗirovnebatšorisi disṭancia), სოციალური დისტანცია (socialuri disṭancia)
• Malayalam: സാമൂഹിക അകലം (sāmūhika akalaṁ)
• Tibetan: སྤྱི་ཚོགས་བར་ཐག (spyi tshogs bar thag), སྤྱི་ཚོགས་དང་ཐག་རྒྱང་རིང་པོ (spyi tshogs dang thag rgyang ring po)
• Turkish: sosyal mesafe
• Vietnamese: khoảng cách xã hội

Verb

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.

Related terms

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

Translations

to maintain a certain distance between at least two people to contain the spread of an infectious disease

• Vietnamese: tạo khoảng cách xã hội, cách ly xã hội

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English social distance.

Noun

social distance f (plural social distances, diminutive social distanceje n)

1. social distancing