I saw that curious look of distance, withdrawnness, isolation, slip down over her features.

Withdrawnness means detachment from the outer world, the other side of introversion.

She had the cold withdrawnness, the almost hieratic decorum, of all Keepers.

Withdrawnness is a characteristic feature of schizoid pathology, but it is sometimes overt and sometimes covert.

Divine instinct, breadth of vision, the law of reason, health, rudeness of body, withdrawnness, Gayety, sun-tan, air-sweetness, such are some of the words of poems.

Overt withdrawnness matches the usual description of the schizoid personality, but withdrawnness is just as often a covert, hidden, internal state of the patient.

Ralph Klein, Clinical Director of the Masterson Institute, delineates the following nine characteristics of the schizoid personality as described by Harry Guntrip: introversion, withdrawnness, narcissism, self-sufficiency, a sense of superiority, loss of affect, loneliness, depersonalization, and regression.