aloofness

Other forms of aloofness

plural

aloofnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aloofness

What does aloofness mean?

aloofness means "indifference by personal withdrawal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aloofness?

aloofness has 3 syllables: a-loof-ness. The stress falls on "loof". In IPA it is /əˈlufnəs/.

What is another word for aloofness?

Close synonyms include distance, remoteness, standoffishness, withdrawnness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aloofness a common word?

aloofness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.