Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being gregarious, or of living in flocks or herds; disposition to herd or associate together.
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- noun The state of being
gregarious .
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- noun the quality of being gregarious--having a dislike of being alone
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Examples
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The 9/11 attack intensified the natural "gregariousness" that had served her as a lawyer and Court TV producer.
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Edward Ross described Italian American singing and dancing as “joyous, shameless gregariousness.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Tess Gilchrest knew she had a talent for forming close friendships with people she had only just met or who had been no more than a recognizable face until a shared experience brought them briefly under the spell of her beguiling gregariousness.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Sammy Arthur 's extroversion is larger than life, gregariousness to the nth degree behind a smile as beatific as it is constant.
Giants Staffer's Big Goal: Medical Miracle Worker Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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Tess Gilchrest knew she had a talent for forming close friendships with people she had only just met or who had been no more than a recognizable face until a shared experience brought them briefly under the spell of her beguiling gregariousness.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Not only do men and women abnormally crave drink, who are overworked, exhausted, suffering from deranged stomachs and bad sanitation, and deadened by the ugliness and monotony of existence, but the gregarious men and women who have no home-life flee to the bright and clattering public-house in a vain attempt to express their gregariousness.
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Tess Gilchrest knew she had a talent for forming close friendships with people she had only just met or who had been no more than a recognizable face until a shared experience brought them briefly under the spell of her beguiling gregariousness.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Tess Gilchrest knew she had a talent for forming close friendships with people she had only just met or who had been no more than a recognizable face until a shared experience brought them briefly under the spell of her beguiling gregariousness.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Tess Gilchrest knew she had a talent for forming close friendships with people she had only just met or who had been no more than a recognizable face until a shared experience brought them briefly under the spell of her beguiling gregariousness.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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On the contrary, she was extraordinarily endowed with intellect, gregariousness, coordination, humor, and good looks.
Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011
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