Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Social character or disposition; sociability or sociality.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being social.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality of being social.

Etymologies

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social +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Also, I'm of the camp that if you look at what "socialness" really is, there's not many alternatives for what can come of it.

    VOTD: Neill Blomkamp’s TED Talk: Life On Other Planets and the Future of Human Civilization | /Film 2010

  • So I'd say it would be misleading to draw conclusions about the "socialness" of various stages of an mmo from the frequency of grouping thereof.

    The Golden 1M: World of Warcraft 2005

  • Either because it's fun, egoboosting, an incentive for others to participate, an indication of the "socialness" of your blog.

    unknown title 2008

  • Either because it's fun, egoboosting, an incentive for others to participate, an indication of the "socialness" of your blog.

    unknown title 2008

  • Either because it's fun, egoboosting, an incentive for others to participate, an indication of the "socialness" of your blog.

    unknown title 2008

  • Either because it's fun, egoboosting, an incentive for others to participate, an indication of the "socialness" of your blog.

    unknown title 2008

  • ..but I suppose if one wanted to start somewhere groups wouldn't be bad - its just "socialness" (whatever that is) is more likely than not to be an unintended consequence of group play and I wouldn't say non-grouped play is any less social than grouped play in WoW (high end game excluded :-)

    The Golden 1M: World of Warcraft 2005

  • During an event Tuesday, Zynga Chief Executive Mark Pincus said the company's new direct-to-consumer strategy, called Zynga Direct, allows it to have "a direct relationship with consumers... where we can give you a whole sandbox and create socialness around the games."

    Zynga Devises a New Plan to Break Its Facebook Habit Shayndi Raice 2011

  • The real budget in the final answer, in Greg's paper, is output from labor, socialness, and height; a three eigenvector decomposition of the general set of economies consisting of random draws according the the presented probaility distributions.

    Mankiw Defends his Tall Tale, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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    Really? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

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