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| Main Entry: |
aloofness
[uh-loof-nis]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | detachment |
| Synonyms: | distance, indifference, remoteness, standoffishness, withdrawnness |
| Main Entry: | apathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncaring attitude, lack of interest |
| Synonyms: | aloofness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, dullness, emotionlessness, halfheartedness, heedlessness, indifference, insensibility, insensitivity, insouciance, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, passiveness, passivity, stoicism, unconcern, unresponsiveness |
| Antonyms: | care, concern, feeling, interest, passion, sensitivity, sympathy, warmth |
| Main Entry: | arrogance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggerated self-opinion |
| Synonyms: | airs, aloofness, audacity, bluster, braggadocio, brass, cheek, chutzpah*, conceit, conceitedness, contemptuousness, crust, disdain, disdainfulness, ego, egotism, gall, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, hubris, imperiousness, insolence, loftiness, nerve, ostentation, overbearance, pomposity, pompousness, presumption, pretension, pretentiousness, pride, priggishness, scornfulness, self-importance, self-love, smugness, superciliousness, swagger, vanity |
| Antonyms: | humility, meekness, servility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- To a less paranoid audience, his affect comes across as aloofness or ambivalence.
- His abstraction and seeming aloofness were the first things conspicuous about him.
- Inevitably, there was a certain stiffness and aloofness in his personality.
| Main Entry: | cold shoulder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | snub |
| Synonyms: | aloofness, brush-off, coldness, dismissal, disregard, iciness |
| Main Entry: | haughtiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | air of supremacy |
| Synonyms: | aloofness, arrogance, conceit, contempt, contemptuousness, disdain, disdainfulness, hauteur, insolence, loftiness, pomposity, pride, snobbishness, superbity, superciliousness |
| Antonyms: | humility, meekness |
| Main Entry: | indifference |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absence of feeling, interest |
| Synonyms: | alienation, aloofness, apathy, callousness, carelessness, cold shoulder, cold-bloodedness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disdain, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, disregard, equity, heedlessness, immunity, impartiality, impassiveness, impassivity, inattention, inertia, insensitivity, insouciance, isolationism, lack, lethargy, listlessness, negligence, neutrality, nonchalance, noninterference, objectivity, stoicism, torpor, unconcern, unmindfulness |
| Antonyms: | caring, compassion, concern, feeling, interest, involvement, regard, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | isolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seclusion |
| Synonyms: | aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, concealment, confinement, desolation, detachment, exile, hiding, monkhood, privacy, privateness, quarantine, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, retreat, seclusiveness, segregation, sequestration, solitude, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | privacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | solitude, secrecy |
| Synonyms: | aloofness, clandestineness, concealment, confidentiality, isolation, one's space, penetralia, privateness, quiet, retirement, retreat, seclusion, separateness, separation, sequestration, solitude |
| Antonyms: | publicity, publicness, sociableness |
| Main Entry: | reserve |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coolness of manner |
| Synonyms: | aloofness, backwardness, calmness, caution, coldness, constraint, coyness, demureness, diffidence, formality, inhibition, modesty, quietness, reluctance, repression, reservation, restraint, reticence, secretiveness, self-restraint, shyness, silence, suppression, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness, unresponsiveness |
| Antonyms: | friendliness, warmth |
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