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unsociableadjectivenot sociable; having, showing, or marked by a disinclination to friendly social relations; withdrawn.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
There are usually signs long before illness is apparent: a predisposition to unsociability, passivity, withdrawal.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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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