insociabilityn.
/ɪnsəʊʃ(ɪ)əˈbɪlɪti/ Insociable disposition or state; unsociableness.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > aversion to social relations
soleintyc1400
unsociableness1611
insociability1740
dissociability1757
unsociabilitya1779
dissociality1825
dissociableness1867
antisociality-
1740 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses v. iv, in Wks. (1811) V. 128 Christianity, considered by them as a Sect of Judaism; which had carried its insociability as far, and its pretensions much farther.
1804 W. Tennant Indian Recreat. (ed. 2) I. 313 A difference of temper and insociability.
1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. vii. 114 By degrees, then, Aram relaxed from his insociability.
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