Sociability
[,səʊʃə'bɪlɪtɪ] or [,soʃə'bɪləti]
Definition
(noun.) the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows.
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Definition
(n.) The quality of being sociable; sociableness.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sociableness, companionableness, sociality, good-fellowship.
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Examples
- Health, wealth, efficiency, sociability, utility, culture, happiness itself are only abstract terms which sum up a multitude of particulars. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It had not even the kindly sociability of the Caliph Omar's visit six hundred years before. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This sociability seemed a necessary part of professional prudence, and the entertainment must be suitable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You won't take a drop, just for sociability? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In consequence of which we have at once, Sociability (I should go melancholy mad without Mrs Boffin), Fashion, and Comfort. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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