Definitions
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- noun The state or condition of being
withdrawn (isolated).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner
Etymologies
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withdrawn + -ness
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Examples
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Nor is it necessary, in order to understand their withdrawnness, to contemplate the possible nuking of the world.
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Divine instinct, breadth of vision, the law of reason, health, rudeness of body, withdrawnness, gaiety, sun-tan, air-sweetness -- such are some of the words of poems.
Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855
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