Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being unsociable; unsociableness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being unsociable; unsociableness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
unsociable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unsociable disposition; avoiding friendship or companionship
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word unsociability.
Examples
-
Hawthorn turned back the clock somewhat with its 'unsociability' in 2008, its niggling pushing the boundaries of the rules in order to gain a psychological edge on its opponents.
-
To see a woman get taunted for being simultaneously frigid and lachrymose and then get teased for her smarts was not to ascribe to her inherently feminine qualities of frigidity, sentimentality, or unsociability.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
-
To see a woman get taunted for being simultaneously frigid and lachrymose and then get teased for her smarts was not to ascribe to her inherently feminine qualities of frigidity, sentimentality, or unsociability.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
-
To see a woman get taunted for being simultaneously frigid and lachrymose and then get teased for her smarts was not to ascribe to her inherently feminine qualities of frigidity, sentimentality, or unsociability.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
-
To see a woman get taunted for being simultaneously frigid and lachrymose and then get teased for her smarts was not to ascribe to her inherently feminine qualities of frigidity, sentimentality, or unsociability.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
-
As a result De Tocqueville ascribed to the English "a strange unsociability, reserved and taciturn".
-
Most of the out of guideline prescriptions were for memory problems, restlessness, unsociability, uncooperativeness, indifference to their surroundings, or depression.
-
In his childhood and youth he was by no means expansive, and talked little indeed, but not from shyness or a sullen unsociability; quite the contrary, from something different, from a sort of inner preoccupation entirely personal and unconcerned with other people, but so important to him that he seemed, as it were, to forget others on account of it.
-
Having bred a strain of aggressive rhesus monkeys, Higley finds that their defining characteristic is in early life irritability, and in later life the unsociability that correlates with the low level of serotonin they've inherited.
-
Having bred a strain of aggressive rhesus monkeys, Higley finds that their defining characteristic is in early life irritability, and in later life the unsociability that correlates with the low level of serotonin they've inherited.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.