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asocial, a.|eɪˈsəʊʃəl|
[f. a- 14 + social a.]
Not social; antagonistic to society or social order; (colloq.) inconsiderate of or hostile to other people. Cf. antisocial a.
1883H. Maudsley Body & Will iii. i. 241 New products of an asocial or antisocial kind are formed in the retrograde metamorphosis of the human kind. 1920W. H. R. Rivers Instinct & the Unconscious xix. 156 Some channel which leads in an asocial or antisocial direction. 1932Daily Express 20 Sept. 9/4 One cannot foresee to what end their asocial behaviour or maladjustments will ultimately lead. 1952M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) ii. 17 This ugly, a-social man, at home and suddenly garrulous in their midst.
Hence as n., an asocial person. rare.
1945Koestler Yogi & Commissar iii. iv. 249 Most asocials have some such sort of jealously-guarded private philosophy. 1961R. Kee Refugee World iv. 41 A proportion of ‘a-socials’ there—people who wouldn't live anywhere else rather than couldn't. |