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Noun: uncongeniality  ,ún-kun,jee-nee'a-li-tee
  1. A disposition not to be congenial
    "Her uncongeniality at work meetings made collaboration difficult"
     
  2. The quality of not being pleasing; of being disagreeable
    "Notwithstanding the uncongeniality of his surroundings, he had found opportunities for study, and never had his treasured volumes seemed more precious to him than during those long winter months, when despair haunted him like a shadow from which there seemed no means of escape"

Derived forms: uncongenialities

Type of: unfriendliness, unpleasantness

Antonym: congeniality