set apart from the cloddish world about them by their heightened capacity for feeling—Mark Schorer
cloddishnessnoun
Nobody knows better than Miss Manners that cloddishness is a social menace, but apparently no one else knows that the cure for it is not the cloddishness of going around "enlightening" people about how unpleasant one finds their pleasantries. —Judith Martin, Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility, 1999
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