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unsociability

  • a word derived from unsociable.
    unsociable
    adjective
    not sociable; having, showing, or marked by a disinclination to friendly social relations; withdrawn.

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Should we think of headphones, then, as just another emblem of catastrophic social decline, a tool that edges us even deeper into narcissism, solipsism, vast unsociability?

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 12, 2016

There are usually signs long before illness is apparent: a predisposition to unsociability, passivity, withdrawal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their neighbors debate whether the Hoppers have left their drive unpaved through unsociability or frugality.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead, the "symptoms" could be nearly all forms of behavior -- unsociability, mild pessimism, stubbornness -- that deviated from the social or political ideal.

From Time Magazine Archive

So it happened that, whilst Rhys and the rest were making merry, William was half the time lost in thought, and one or other rallied him on his unsociability, as they considered it.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks