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nonaloof en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + aloof.

Meanings

1. Not aloof; emotionally accessible.
   • Parents of TD children used the eyes to detect emotion, and nonaloof parents of children with ASDs fell somewhere in between. 2008, Autism, Lisa D. Benaron, page 121:
   • The principal will be so nonaloof that he becomes instructive. 2008, B. Shouriamma, Education Administration, page 91:
   • Then, to her annoyance, the emotional, nonaloof, nonproper woman seized her vocal cords. 2011, Leslie Parrish, Cold Touch: Extrasensory Agents:
   • His ease with people, his celebrated smile, his nonaloof manner and warm, man-of-the-people style coupled with his proven antifascism, covered him with a mantle of assumed concern, benevolence, honesty, and wisdom. 1981, Blanche Wiesen Cook, The Declassified Eisenhower: A Divided Legacy, page 121:

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