standoffishness

Questions about standoffishness

What does standoffishness mean?

standoffishness means "a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner".

How many syllables are in standoffishness?

standoffishness has 4 syllables and divides as stan-dof-fish-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for standoffishness?

Close synonyms include aloofness, remoteness, 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 standoffishness a common word?

standoffishness 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.