aloofness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun indifference by personal withdrawal
    distance.
    • emotional distance
  2. noun a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner
    withdrawnness; remoteness; standoffishness.

WordNet


A*loof"ness noun
Definitions
  1. State of being aloof. Rogers (1642).
    The . . . aloofness of his dim forest life. Thoreau.

Webster 1913