adj
asocial
Asocial (adj) means not connected with, or not involving, society.
adj
1
Not connected with, or not involving, society.
2
Not wanting to spend time with other people, and having few social contacts.
"She herself was already asocial at the age of six months and stiffened in her mother’s arms at this time, and such reactions, common in autism, she also finds inexplicable in terms of theory of mind."
— Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars (1995)
"And it’s maybe because of math’s absolute, wholly abstract Truth that so many people still view the discipline as dry or passionless and its practitioners as asocial dweebs."
— David Foster Wallace, Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama (2000)
"In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit."
— Joan Didion, 7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38 (1967)
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Etymology
Formed from a- and social; in the sense 'antisocial', and as a noun, it appears to be a calque of German asozial / Asozialer.
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What is the meaning of asocial?
"asocial" (adj) means not connected with, or not involving, society.
What is another word for asocial?
Other words for "asocial" include antisocial.
What is the opposite of asocial?
Opposites of "asocial" include social, outgoing.
What are the different meanings of asocial?
"asocial" has 2 main meanings: 1. Not connected with, or not involving, society; 2. Not wanting to spend time with other people, and having few social contacts.
