mobbishnessn.
/ˈmɒbᵻʃnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈmɑbɪʃnᵻs/ Mobbish quality or nature. Also (without negative connotation): the tendency to go about in mobs or groups.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun] > having specific quality
good fellowship1595
company1604
mobbishness1832
1832 Evening Mail 27–29 Feb. 6/3 The same language had also been held at the various meetings at which he (Lord Roden) had had the happiness to be present,—meetings, not of mobbishness, but of men who loved the truth, and would abide by the word of God.
1911 J. G. Frazer Let. 13 May in Sel. Lett. (2005) 310 Nothing that any psychologist may say about the general ‘mobbishness’ of savages can weigh against the evidence of facts in such a case.
1920 Q. Rev. July 166 The savage enjoys no privacy, but is always in some sort of a crowd,..experiencing therefore all those peculiar mental effects which mobbishness brings in its train.
1927 W. Deeping Kitty xxiv. 310 You would still hope for your super-scientist..who, by pressing a button in his laboratory, could efface all mobs and mobbishness.
1933 C. L. Waring in Laying Foundation-Stone Liverpool Metropol. Cathedral 11 In Liverpool even a mob can have manners... They then reverted to their mobbishness.
2019 Independent (Nexis) 30 Oct. 67 The sight of a crowd turning on one of its own in a display of such mobbishness was equally as gruesome.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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