sociablenessn.
/ˈsəʊʃəblnəs/, U.S. /ˈsoʊʃəbəlnəs/ The fact or quality of being sociable; sociability.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [noun] > state or quality of being sociable
sociability1581
sociableness1592
outgoingness1865
get-togetherness1906
folksiness1931
1592 F. Moryson Let. in Itinerary (1617) i. 36 Passengers..vse to giue the wine to the old Merchants, To which custome gentlemen for sociablenes have submitted themselves.
1613 A. Sherley Relation Trav. Persia 116 Which will giue an entrance to a kind of sociablenesse, and that will proceed..to a mutuall friendship.
1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme ii. iv. §3 The two main Properties of Man being Contemplation and Sociableness or love of Converse.
1724 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. I. iii. 25 Abundance of Gentry being in the Neighbourhood, it adds to the Sociableness of the Place.
1768 D. Hume Let. (1932) II. 191 The young people cannot endure him, on account of his want of sociableness.
a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) iii. 195 An absolute passion, indulgence in which gratified..his jovial sociableness.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. vii. 50 But of this sociableness William was entirely destitute.
1961 G. Reichel-Dolmatoff & A. Reichel-Dolmatoff People of Ariatma iii. vii. 280 The local culture condemns sociableness, drunkenness, music, dancing, etc. etc.
2002 Indian Express (Nexis) 15 Sept. Many [Goan Christians] had married non Goans and with their sociableness were a fixture on the city's cocktail circuit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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