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Definition of Aloofness
1. Noun. Indifference by personal withdrawal. "Emotional distance"
2. Noun. A disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner.
Generic synonyms: Unsociability, Unsociableness
Specialized synonyms: Unapproachability
Derivative terms: Aloof, Standoffish, Withdrawn, Withdrawn
Definition of Aloofness
1. n. State of being aloof.
Definition of Aloofness
1. Noun. The state of being aloof ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aloofness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Aloofness
Literary usage of Aloofness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monroe Doctrine: An Interpretation by Albert Bushnell Hart (1916)
"... and nothing but the lack of statesmanship in Great Britain allowed this country
to drift into the War of 1812. j COUNTER DOCTRINE OF EUROPEAN aloofness ..."
2. Greater Italy by William Kay Wallace (1917)
"... OF aloofness. MILITARY AND POLITICAL CRISES. UNITY ITALY had entered into the
war with her eyes wide open, in pursuance of a carefully matured programme ..."
3. Carlyle and the Open Secret of His Life by Henry Larkin (1886)
"... be a ' Queen's Member'— Ceases in despair as a Social Reformer—His sensitive
aloofness— Not ' common clay after all'—Self-revealing Letters to Emerson— ..."
4. Christianity and Politics by William Cunningham (1915)
"... of spiritual authority to which the individual conscience is drawn to respond.
in. THE aloofness OF ANGLO-SAXON PEOPLES While the Roman Church as an ..."
5. Sketches and Studies in Southern Europe by John Addington Symonds (1880)
"Yet at times he tempers the full torrent of resonant utterance with divine
tranquillity, and leaves upon our mind that sense of powerful aloofness from his ..."
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