antisocialityn.
The quality or condition of being antisocial:
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a. aversion to social intercourse.
b. antagonism to the laws of ordered society.
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1818 T. L. Peacock Nightmare Abbey vii. 100 That amiable discontent and antisociality, which you reprobate in our present parlour-window literature.
1902 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. Oct. 586 The anti-sociality of so many defectives is due to the arrest which so often takes place at the end of childhood.
1959 B. Wootton Social Sci. & Social Pathol. x. 303 Investigators have made attempts..to restrict their category of ‘delinquent’ at least to those whose anti-sociality is both persistent and pronounced.
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