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Antisocial   /ˌæntɪsˈoʊʃəl/  /ˌæntaɪsˈoʊʃəl/   Listen
Antisocial

adjective
1.
Shunning contact with others.  "He's not antisocial; just shy"
2.
Hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior.  Synonym: asocial.  "Crimes...and other asocial behavior" , "An antisocial deed"



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"Antisocial" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Stoics, whose rule of life was to follow Nature, and to eschew the pursuit of pleasure. Man's nature, said Epictetus, is social; wrongdoing is antisocial; affection is natural. [Footnote: Discourses, Book I, chapter xxiii—a clever answer to Epicurus.] Said Marcus Aurelius, it is characteristic of the rational soul for a man to love his neighbor. The cautious bachelor imbued with Epicurean principles would find strange and disconcerting the Stoic ...
— A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton


Words linked to "Antisocial" :   unsociable, unsocial, antisocial personality disorder


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