Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The disposition or quality of being sociable.
- noun An instance of being sociable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sociable disposition or tendency: disposition or inclination for the society of others; sociableness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being sociable; sociableness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The skill, tendency or property of being
sociable orsocial , of interacting well with others.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows
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Examples
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Their sociability is what I noticed in pet shops too.
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(Yes, there are collaborations, and there are shared world activities, but the vast majority of writing is done alone.) Retreats, though, pack in sociability around the solitary writing.
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We all vied with one another in sociability and wit.
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We believe that sociability is an essential element of both a pleasant and a digestible meal; and we protest emphatically against the habits which we, as a nation, have contracted.
A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding Sophia Orne 1873
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Some new plan of pleasure, and sociability is constantly courting our adoption.
The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact 1797
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When one is out searching for the nation’s top diplomat, does it make sense to pick a guy who gets low scores in sociability?
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Their social self-awareness also, ipso facto, demonstrates their sociability, which is also implied by the cultural transmission of accumulated knowledge in primate communities.
Human/Non-Human Chimeras Streiffer, Robert 2009
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We like sociability, which is vastly different from liking Society.
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The ultimate quality which he named pity is, after all, the germ of sociability, which is only extended sympathy.
Rousseau Morley, John 1905
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We like sociability, which is vastly different from liking
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