Aloofness

Synonyms for "aloofness" (100 found)

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Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

7 entries
attitudebehavioral stancebehavioral traitindifferencepersonality traitunsociabilityunsociableness

More specific

6 entries
authoritative distanceemotional distanceneutral stanceprofessional distancesocial reserveworkplace detachment

Collocations

5 entries
cold demeanordetached attitudeemotional distanceprofessional distancesocial reserve

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or state, to my circle of friends, or even to my own family. These ties have always been accompanied by a vague aloofness, and the wish to withdraw into myself increases with the years.

Source: tatoeba (5786126)

She wouldn't lose him without a struggle: his aloofness and indifference set a challenge which she could not resist.

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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