unsociability
- noun
- /ˌʌnsoʊʃəˈbɪləti/
:
insoportable
- His unsociability made it hard for him to make friends at school.
- unsociability and shyness
- unsociability among children
Examples
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To further explore these findings, we performed additional analyses to examine shyness and unsociability within the ELL group.
Academic text (2014) -
Investigations of shyness and unsociability among children living in India provide further evidence that social withdrawal may be a multifaceted construct in Western and non-Western societies.
Academic text (2014) -
Children in the NE group had higher ratings of unsociability than did children in the ELL group.
Academic text (2014) -
To further explore these findings, we performed additional analyses to investigate shyness and unsociability between the language groups.
Academic text (2014) -
The shared variance between shyness and unsociability was 16.8%.
Academic text (2014) -
It depended on her mood, of course, and she was rather inclined to fits of unsociability.
Fiction book (2001) -
To our knowledge, this study is the first to evaluate different types of withdrawn behavior, that is, shyness or unsociability, in a population of ELL children.
Academic text (2014) -
Many measures that examine withdrawn behavior in children focus on withdrawn behavior as a general construct or only address shyness and unsociability in preschool children.
Academic text (2014) -
Results from this study demonstrate that the WBS provides a method of examining shyness and unsociability that is not currently addressed by other measures of social behavior.
Academic text (2014) -
The NE and ELL groups differed on the ratings of shyness and unsociability.
Academic text (2014)
Synonyms
30
7.4
Feeling of being alone and separate from other people
21
6.1
A lack of emotional involvement with people or situations
4
7.2
A feeling of being distant from other people and not friendly
1
3.9
A cold, not kind way of behaving toward other people
A habit of avoiding being with other people
A way of acting toward other people that is distant and not friendly
A way someone seems that makes people avoid talking to them
Lack of friendliness and harmony in a group or place
A quality of being unpleasant and hard to get along with that makes people avoid you
Antonyms
How Sociable
1
7.4
2
3.6
21
2.8
1
8.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
unsociability = unsociable (transparent) = un + sociable + ity
The word is transparently derived from 'unsociable' with the noun-forming suffix '-ity'.
Etymology
Unsociability begins with un- meaning 'not' and uses social from a root that means 'companion' or 'friend', the same idea in society. So unsociability means 'not wanting companions' or avoiding other people.