Both Uses of
aloof
in
A Thousand Splendid Suns
- All those years of aloofness, of cooping herself up and not caring where Laila went and whom she saw and what she thought...It was unfair.†
p. 164.2 *aloofness = the quality or degree of being socially distant or uninterested
- Was this her penalty, then, her punishment for being aloof to her own mother's suffering?†
p. 210.4aloof = socially distant or uninterested
Definition:
socially distant or uninterested in something that interests others -- often thinking oneself superior to others