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sociableness|ˈsəʊʃəb(ə)lnɪs|
[f. prec. + -ness.]
The character or quality of being sociable, in the various senses of the word; sociability.
1592Moryson Let. in Itin. (1617) i. 36 To which custome gentlemen for sociablenes have submitted themselves. 1613Sir A. Sherley Trav. Persia 116 Which will giue an entrance to a kind of sociablenesse, and that will proceed..to a mutuall friendship. 1653More Antid. Ath. ii. iv. §3 The two main Properties of Man being Contemplation and Sociableness or love of Converse. 1724De Foe Tour Gt. Brit. I. iii. 25 Abundance of Gentry being in the Neighbourhood, it adds to the Sociableness of the Place. 1727[see socialness]. 1825Cockburn Mem. (1856) 195 An absolute passion, indulgence in which gratified..his jovial sociableness. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. III. 50 But of this sociableness William was entirely destitute. |