Synonyms for distance
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Noun
1. Unfriendliness — excessive reserve or lack of friendliness shown by a person; aloofness, coldness
unfriendliness, standoffishness rare, unsociableness rare
Definitions
- n. 1
Excessive reserve or lack of friendliness shown by a person; aloofness, coldness.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- distances → unfriendlinesses, lengths, intervals, ways…
Example sentences
- unfriendliness Unfriendliness is the new thinking.
- range Prices range from as low as $30 to as high as $50.
- reach I placed the medicine out of the children's reach.
- length I will not go to the length of saying such things.
- separation The separation felt like a never-ending nightmare.
- interval There was a two hour's interval to the next train.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| distance | steady | |
| unfriendliness | falling | |
| range | falling | |
| reach | steady | |
| length | falling | |
| separation | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- way1
- 5 letters
- space1, range1, reach1
- 6 letters
- length1, spread1, extent2
- 8 letters
- interval3
- 9 letters
- aloofness3
- 10 letters
- separation4, remoteness3
- 14 letters
- unfriendliness, unsociableness
- 15 letters
- standoffishness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (extent2 = 2 syllables).