idiom
six degrees of separation
SIX deh-GREEZ uv sep-ah-RAY-shun
sɪks dɪˈɡriːz əv ˌsɛpəˈreɪʃənListen
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Syllable breakdown
sixdegreesofseparation
Dictionary meaning
the theory that any two people in the world can be connected to each other through a chain of no more than six social connections; first proposed by Frigyes Karinthy in 1929 and later explored empirically by Stanley Milgram's small world experiment; popularized in culture and used as a conceptual foundation for understanding the small-world property of social networks
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