unsociability
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a word derived from
unsociable.
unsociableadjectivenot sociable; having, showing, or marked by a disinclination to friendly social relations; withdrawn.
Example Sentences
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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
Their neighbors debate whether the Hoppers have left their drive unpaved through unsociability or frugality.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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There are usually signs long before illness is apparent: a predisposition to unsociability, passivity, withdrawal.
From Time Magazine Archive
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More precisely, it is a special unsociability, one which escapes all other penalties, which it is the function of laughter to reach.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park