The averaged Hausdorff distance ∆p is an inframetric which has been recently used in evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO). In this paper we introduce a new two-parameter performance indicator ∆p,q which generalizes ∆p as well as the standard Hausdorff distance. For p, q 1 the indicator ∆p,q (that we call the (p, q)-averaged distance) turns out to be a proper metric and preserves some of the ∆p advantages. We proof several properties of ∆p,q, and provide a comparison with ∆p and the standard Hausdorff distance. For simplicity we restrict ourselves to finite sets, which is the most common case, but our results can be extended to the continuous case.