distantness

Stories that made his eyes shine, then fade into a distantness.

Now, as Heim's distantness persisted, there was no chance-in this crowded, thrumming cabin-to ask what had gone wrong.

Liz mentions Dylan's distantness which provokes Miranda and Nat to tell her about the affair.

It was a silver lavaliere; it had only cost a few dollars, but there was always this intense feeling in me that I might break through her wall of strange and disturbing distantness with a word, a gift, a kiss, a gesture.