distantiation

English edit

distantiation (countable and uncountable, plural distantiations)

The act or process of distantiating.
- 1995, Catharina Wulf, Oeil Fauve, page 54:
  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: […]