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Unsociability   Listen
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Unsociability  n.  The quality or state of being unsociable; unsociableness.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Unsociability" Quotes from Famous Books



... the confession were unworthy. The Catholic church, for obvious utilitarian reasons, has substituted auricular confession to one priest for the more radical act of public confession. We English-speaking Protestants, in the general self-reliance and unsociability of our nature, seem to find it enough if we take ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

... he could scarcely be said to be intimate. James Dutton's rather isolated condition was not in consequence of any morbid or uncouth streak in his mental make-up. He was of a shy and gentle nature, and his sedentary occupation had simply let the habit of solitude and unsociability form a shell about him. Dutton was a shoemaker and cobbler, like his father before him, plying his craft in the shabby cottage where he was born and had lived ever since, at the foot of a narrow lane leading ...
— The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... the culture and art which adorn humanity, the most refined social order, are produced by that unsociability which is compelled by its own existence to discipline itself, and so by enforced art to bring the seeds implanted by nature into full flower." (Loc. cit. ...
— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley



Words linked to "Unsociability" :   unsociable, closeness, aloofness, introversion, temperament, disposition, secretiveness, withdrawnness, standoffishness, sociability



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