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sociability|səʊʃəˈbɪlɪtɪ|
Also 5 ? socibbilitee.
[f. next + -ity. Cf. F. sociabilité, Sp. sociabilidad, Pg. -idade.]
1. The character or quality of being sociable; friendly disposition or intercourse.
a1475Ashby Poems (1899) ii. 270 He shall appere false and sedicious, Be al quaint socibbilitees and labour. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. (1887) 152 Doth he not shew forth an euident sociabilitie and liklyhood, that he will be very well to be liued withall? 1594Parsons Confer. Success. i. i. 3 Sociability or inclination to liue togeather in company. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. ii. vi. I. 275 Such then was the Root and Foundation of this Sociability of Religion in the ancient World, so much envied by our modern Infidels. 1786F. Burney Diary 12 Aug., We were flung, by this means, into a style of sociability we might else never have arrived at. 1812Henry Camp. agst. Quebec 134 Civil wars which extinguish the sociabilities of mankind. 1880Flo. Marryat Fair-Haired Alda II. v. 82 They were wofully disappointed by the results of their intended sociability.
2. Ecol. The extent to which the plants of a species are found in proximity to one another. [The sense is due to Braun-Blanquet and Pavillard, who used F. sociabilité (Vocabulaire de Sociologie végétale (1922) 3).]
1922Jrnl. Ecol. X. 246 Where the French terms are practically identical with the English equivalents..they are simply translated... La Sociabilité (Soziabilität, Geselligkeit): disposition of individuals in the interior of an association. Five grades of sociability are expressed as follows. 1932Fuller & Conard tr. Braun-Blanquet's Plant Sociol. iii. 36 Gregariousness or ‘sociability’ expresses a space relationship of individual plants, answering the question, how are the individuals or shoots of a species grouped? 1961Hanson & Churchill Plant Community iii. 97 Species that spread only by seed may also show a high degree of sociability, especially in the early stages of succession, as in abandoned fields where certain annual weeds may become very dense. 1973P. A. Colinvaux Introd. Ecol. v. 65 Zea mays..had a cover abundance rating of only ‘3’ since, although the commonest plant, it by no means covered nearly all the ground as it must to rate a ‘5’, and a sociability of ‘1’, earned because it was evenly spaced and thus the extreme loner. |