- a place or situation remote from worldly or practical affairs: the university as an ivory tower.
- an attitude of aloofness from or disdain or disregard for worldly or practical affairs: his ivory tower of complacency.
- seclusion or remoteness of attitude regarding real problems, everyday life, etc
- (as modifier)
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