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Distant vs Marginalized - What's the difference?

distant | marginalized |

As adjectives the difference between distant and marginalized

is that distant is far off (physically, logically or mentally) while marginalized is subject to marginalization.

As a verb marginalized is

(marginalize).

distant

English

Alternative forms

* distaunt (obsolete) * dystant (obsolete) * dystaunt (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
  • Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.

    • Related terms

    * distance * equidistant

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    marginalized

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (marginalize)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Subject to marginalization