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antisocial, a. and n.|æntɪˈsəʊʃəl|
[anti- 3.]
1. Opposed to sociality, averse to society or companionship.
1797J. Lawrence in Month. Mag. XLVI. 113 Fanatical prejudices, antisocial antipathies and hatred.
2. Opposed to the principles on which society is constituted. Also, spec. in Sociol., pertaining to a class of persons or actions devoid of or antagonistic to normal social instincts or practices.
1802J. Mackintosh in Memoirs (1835) I. iv. 176 A collection of all the rebellious, antisocial, blasphemous..books..published during..the Revolution. 1844Dublin Rev. Mar. 34 The dark, malignant, atrocious, and utterly anti-social character, which the Republican party in its contest with the new government has exhibited. 1849Grote Greece ii. lxvii. VI. 84 Doctrines openly and avowedly anti-social. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VIII. lxv. 149 The earliest charge against the believers was that of perverse and antisocial usages. 1889S. Olivier in G. B. Shaw Fabian Ess. Socialism 109 Some kinds of anti-social action are so unreasonable..that we brand them..as insane. 1896Giddings Princ. Sociol. iv. 72 The anti-social or criminal [class], in which the consciousness of kind is approaching extinction. 1904Westm. Gaz. 7 Dec. 2/3 To insist on not paying when asked by the conductor is at once inconvenient and anti-social.
Hence as n., one who exhibits such tendencies.
1945C. Burney Dungeon Democracy i. 14 The ‘anti-socials’—that is..those who had been locked up for anti-social activity. |