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Definition of Asocial

1. Adjective. Given to avoiding association with others. "Are you asocial or do you just enjoy living in the Antarctic?"

2. Adjective. Hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior. "An antisocial deed"

Definition of Asocial

1. Adjective. not social ¹

2. Adjective. not sociable ¹

3. Adjective. (colloquial) (''proscribed'') antisocial ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Asocial

1. one that avoids the company of others [n -S]

Medical Definition of Asocial

1. Not social; withdrawn from society; indifferent to social rules or customs; e.g., a recluse, a regressed schizophrenic person, a schizoid personality. Compare: antisocial. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Asocial

aslakes aslaking aslant asleep asleep(p) asleep at the switch asleepe aslope aslosh aslug

asmatographer asmatographers asmear asnarl asoak asocial (current term) asociality asocially asocials asoma

asomatognosia asomatognosias asomatous asomtavruli asonant asp asp viper asparaginase

Literary usage of Asocial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1922)
"In our study of members of this group we discover individuals who to all intents and purposes commit these asocial acts without any apparent motive, ..."

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