Meanings
noundistantiation (countable and uncountable, plural distantiations)
plural distantiations
- countableuncountableThe act or process of distantiating.
The reversal of the direction of the traditional peephole gaze (we see the looker, not the lookee) is only part of this painting's correspondences to Eh Joe; consider, too, the distantiation created by the two focuses: […]
1995, Catharina Wulf, Oeil Fauve, page 54
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