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单词 quasi-social
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quasi-social
quasi-social adj.
Brit. /ˌkweɪzʌɪˈsəʊʃl/
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/ˌkwɑːzɪˈsəʊʃl/
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/ˌkwɒzɪˈsəʊʃl/
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U.S. /ˌkweɪˌzaɪˈsoʊʃ(ə)l/
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/ˌkwɑziˈsoʊʃ(ə)l/
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/ˌkweɪˌsaɪˈsoʊʃ(ə)l/
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/ˌkwɑsiˈsoʊʃ(ə)l/
(of an activity or relationship) having some but not all of the features that would identify it as genuinely social; having a social aspect but with some other purpose or motivation; Zoology (esp. with reference to insects and spiders) exhibiting some of the characteristics of social organization (social adj. 6b), esp. cooperative brood care.
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1873 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 316 It became needful to search for the circumstances which begot in the progenitors of mankind the capacity for a kind of social combination more definite in the character of its relationships than that quasi-social combination, not uncommon among mammals, which is known as gregariousness.
1885 A. Forbes Souvenirs of Continents 247 A turbulent..sea of political..quasi-social life.
1928 W. M. Wheeler Social Insects i. 13 The insects..which are more interesting for our purposes may be called ‘quasi-’ or ‘subsocial’.
1939 Rural Sociol. Mar. 463 Hobbies..are only quasi-social, but they are similar to social activities in their contrast to work.
1983 Amer. Naturalist 122 819 By the time of the emergence of quasisocial colonies the stage is set for the evolution of a reproductive division of labor in which some wasps normally forego reproduction to aid nestmates (semisociality).
2004 D. J. Atkin et al. in M. B. Salwen et al. Online News & Public xiii. 308 Lin used the term quasisocial interaction to describe the social interaction activity taking place in these online chat groups (i.e., a two-way communication under an artificial and pseudo-social setting).
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