personal space

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the variable and subjective distance at which one person feels comfortable talking to another.

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Also called personal distance.

Words nearby personal space

personal pension, personal pronoun, personal property, personal rapid transit, personal shopper, personal space, personal staff, personal stereo, personal stylist, personal trainer, personalty

Example sentences from the Web for personal space

Things like the word “essential,” or social distancing, or personal space.
How Hallmark is handling pandemic Valentine’s Day|Luke Winkie|February 12, 2021|Vox
So a lot of teens have called and texted about family intruding on their personal space.
The loneliness of an interrupted adolescence|Ellen McCarthy|February 11, 2021|Washington Post
This means that even B2B marketers are dealing with customers in their personal spaces.
Marketing Briefing: How the Super Bowl represents a return to normalcy that’s yet to become reality|Kristina Monllos|February 9, 2021|Digiday
The way neurons are packed in a brain would make canned sardines look like they have a highly evolved sense of personal space.
An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience - Issue 94: Evolving|Grigori Guitchounts|December 30, 2020|Nautilus

The idea for ootBox was a few years in the making, but it wasn’t until shutdown orders were put in place this year that so many people found themselves needing personal spaces at home.
The Pandemic’s Unlikely Revelation: Closet Offices|Joshua Eferighe|November 17, 2020|Ozy
The email appears to have been a relatively common attempt to gain personal information from a wide range of unwitting victims.
Was Sony Hit With a Second Hack?|Shane Harris|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And, as Gow adds wryly from his own personal experience, “To a huge extent they achieved that aim very well.”
‘Nazi Cows’ Tried to Kill British Farmer|Tom Sykes|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Michael Steinbrick, a personal trainer with New York Sports Clubs, says he can always spot a newbie.
How to Survive the New Year ‘Gympocalypse’|Tim Teeman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Marrying another Jew was not just a personal simcha (joy), but one for the community.
My Week on Jewish Tinder|Emily Shire|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It was hard not to take it as a sign, a personal comment on my own Jewish dating failings.
My Week on Jewish Tinder|Emily Shire|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The feeling for the tiny things probably has in it the warmth of a young personal sympathy.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Make a personal appeal to your men and Godley's to make a supreme effort to hold their ground.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
The same two impulses are said to lie at the root of the elaborate art of personal adornment developed by savages.
Children's Ways|James Sully
One of the lower and mixed forms of artistic activity, in the case of the child and of the race alike, is personal adornment.
Children's Ways|James Sully
He respected her courage and obvious power to rise above the personal attitude of her sex.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton

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