withdrawnness

Questions about withdrawnness

What does withdrawnness mean?

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

How many syllables are in withdrawnness?

withdrawnness has 3 syllables: with-drawn-ness. The stress falls on "with".

What is another word for withdrawnness?

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

withdrawnness 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.