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Meanings of cliquishness in English

Portuguese
exclusividade
Catalan
exclusivitat

Tendency to associate with only a select group.

        exclusividade
        Synonyms
        Examples for "exclusiveness"
        Examples for "exclusiveness"
        1
        All privileges are valuable in proportion to the exclusiveness of their enjoyment.
        The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 12
        2
        I wish the alliance, and think it better to maintain the exclusiveness.
        Evan Harrington — Volume 4
        3
        There was a sense of luxury-ofexclusiveness-inpassing over its smooth surface.
        The Lady of Big Shanty
        4
        This rigid exclusiveness has not militated against the prosperity of the club.
        Inns and Taverns of Old London
        5
        And exclusiveness, all the pride of race must disappear before such considerations.
        Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melan...
        1
        Even the Scotch and the Devonians weaken a little in their clannishness.
        The New Machiavelli
        2
        One of the first points to be taken account of is his clannishness.
        Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
        3
        That tends to contribute to the clannishness non-Cubans sometimes complain about.
        Darkly Dreaming Dexter
        4
        Perhaps it was the Scots clannishness that attracted them.
        With Our Army in Palestine
        5
        But the clannishness of sex has its unwritten laws.
        Dream Days
        Usage of cliquishness in English
        1
        She describes men's behaviour as "needy cliquishness" but extols the virtues of her own clique.
        The Irish Times
        2
        It was that cliquishness; he wanted to be a part of something, could never find anything to be part of.
        Life
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for cliquishness
        Portuguese
        exclusividade