aloofness
nounEtymology From aloof + -ness.
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Usually The state of being aloof.
- She wouldn't lose him without a struggle: his aloofness and indifference set a challenge which she could not resist.1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 49:
- Where was he now? Nick was still in the alien high reach of the road, with the canal and the council estates, and longing for the other end, his own end, the safety and aloofness of white stucco and private gardens.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 6, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN: