inaffability

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noun

Lack of affability or sociability; unfriendliness.

OriginFrench inaffabilité →
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Meanings

nouninaffability (uncountable)
  1. datedformaluncountableLack of affability or sociability; unfriendliness.

    The inaffability of the two girls is already beginning to assume a pinched, soured, discontented turn of countenance, which has made them old before their time.

    1836, The Diary of a Désennuyée, page 78

Origin

  1. Frenchinaffabilité
  2. Englishinaffability

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Chicago

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