Definition of "aloofness"

aloofness

noun
usually uncountable, plural aloofnesses
1. The state of being aloof
  Quotations
  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 […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing