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Meanings of unsociableness in English

An unsociable disposition; avoiding friendship or companionship.

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      Examples for "unsociability"
      1
      By circumstance he has been schooled into a state of guarded unsociability.
      The Sowers
      2
      They express Michelangelo's irritation at being always twitted with unsociability and eccentricity.
      The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
      3
      For the most part, he seems relatively untroubled by his unsociability.
      Independent.ie
      4
      It was scarcely a companionship, but a co-existence in unsociability.
      The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories:...
      5
      But an English Club is really a promoter of unsociability.
      Gilbert Keith Chesterton
      Usage of unsociableness in English
      1
      All this apparent unsociableness is merely shyness-thenational characteristic of the Englishman.
      Character
      2
      Snuffy was telling me they like him real well, considering his unsociableness.
      Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901
      3
      There are other qualities besides these, which grow out of the comparative unsociableness of the Englishman.
      Character
      4
      But it was only those who knew him intimately that could venture, after long separation, to break in upon this seeming unsociableness and hauteur.
      James Fenimore Cooper / American Men of Letters
      Unsociableness through the time