Usually means: Staying inside, avoiding social interaction.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word cocooning:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. cocooning: Merriam-Webster
  2. cocooning: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. cocooning: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cocooning: Vocabulary.com
  5. Cocooning, cocooning: Wordnik
  6. cocooning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cocooning: Wiktionary
  8. cocooning: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. cocooning: Dictionary.com
  10. Cocooning (aircraft), Cocooning (behaviour), Cocooning (immunization), Cocooning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. cocooning: Rhymezone
  12. cocooning: FreeDictionary.org
  13. cocooning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. cocooning: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. cocooning: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cocooning: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cocooning: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cocooning: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cocooning: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cocoon as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cocooning)

noun:  The formation of a cocoon.
noun:  (by extension) The act of staying inside one's home, insulated from perceived danger, instead of going out.

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