Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being sociable; sociability.
- noun An instance of sociableness.
- noun The tendency to form communities and societies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being social; social quality or disposition; sociability; social intercourse, or its enjoyment.
- noun The impulses which cause men to form society.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being social; socialness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The character of being social; social quality or disposition; sociability; social intercourse, or its enjoyment.
- noun The quality of an animal kind of being
social .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the tendency to associate with others and to form social groups
Etymologies
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Examples
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Groups and grumps: Study identifies 'sociality' neurons
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Again, the kind of sociality and risk in the online world in a US model that supplies all the discourse fails to operate in a very different and smaller context.
Tears of Rage Against the Machine Kirsty 2007
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I involuntarily paused at the frog-pond, for there seemed a kind of sociality in their voices.
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Natural selection has equipped us with a religious longing for dialogue with supernatural beings, and this propensity has in turn fostered a sense of "sociality" and other emotions essential to dealing with the omnipresent threat of extinction at the hands of nature and hostile human groups.
Commonweal Magazine aniitcw 2010
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Natural selection has equipped us with a religious longing for dialogue with supernatural beings, and this propensity has in turn fostered a sense of "sociality" and other emotions essential to dealing with the omnipresent threat of extinction at the hands of nature and hostile human groups.
Commonweal Magazine aniitcw 2010
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WideTag (our review), says that by 2050 objects will be judged more for their 'sociality' than their aesthetic value.
ReadWriteWeb 2010
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BoingBoing are popular not just because of great content but also because of having "sociality" baked in.
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In that respect, this kind of sociality within a MMOG both resembles the sociality that many players inhabit in their daily lives and is *part* of that sociality--that in a synthetic world, players sometimes behave as if they are in a crowded social space like a mall (where one engages in individualized shopping, walking, viewing which is very like "solo levelling") and sometimes behave as if they're at a party or playing tennis with friends (becoming socially visible to other people, being engaged in simultaneous activity with a group).
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"sociality" of Socialism is embraced and practiced.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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"sociality" of Socialism is embraced and practiced.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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