Word Meanings - INAFFABILITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of affability or sociability; reticence.

Related words: (words related to INAFFABILITY)

• SOCIABILITY
  The quality of being sociable; sociableness.
• RETICENCE
  A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak
• AFFABILITY
  The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior. Affability is of a wonderful efficacy or power in procuring love. Elyot
• INSOCIABILITY
  The quality of being insociable; want of sociability; unsociability. Bp. Warburton.
• UNSOCIABILITY
  The quality or state of being unsociable; unsociableness.
• ASSOCIABILITY
  The quality of being associable, or capable of association; associableness. "The associability of feelings." H. Spencer.
• INAFFABILITY
  Want of affability or sociability; reticence.
• DISSOCIABILITY
  Want of sociability; unsociableness. Bp. Warburton.