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单词 sociality
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socialityn.

Brit. /ˌsəʊʃɪˈalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌsoʊʃiˈælədi/
Forms: 1600s socialitie, 1600s– sociality.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French socialité; Latin sociālitās.
Etymology: < French socialité sociability (1572 in Middle French; 15th cent. in senses ‘society’, ‘what one has in common’, ‘alliance’) or its etymon classical Latin sociālitās sociable disposition, companionableness < sociālis social adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix1; compare -ity suffix). Compare Italian socialità (1686). Compare socialty n., sociability n.
1.
a. The state or quality of being sociable; (the enjoyment of) friendly social interaction; sociability.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > [noun]
conversationc1340
dolea1400
repairc1425
fellowshipc1450
frequentation?1520
communion1529
society1531
commerce1537
commercement1537
society1538
trade1555
intercourse1557
company1576
intercommunication1586
interdeal1591
entertain1602
consort1607
entregent1607
quarter1608
commercing1610
converse1610
trucka1625
congress1628
socialty1638
frequency1642
socialitya1649
socialness1727
intercommuniona1761
social life1812
dialogue1890
discourse1963
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [noun]
socialty1638
socialitya1649
socialness1727
a1649 in Notes & Queries (1854) 1st Ser. 10 357 Socialitie becometh the person of the gravest man, soe as he neglect not the due consideration of time, place, and persons.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. §1. 420 The Pleasures of Sociality and Mirth.
1775 F. Burney Let. 13 Nov. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 94 The Dean is a man of drollery, good humour, & sociality.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. vii. 170 The good Lord kissed the wine-cup by way of parenthesis, remarking, that sociality became Scottish gentlemen.
1883 D. Barratt in A. Barratt Physical Metempiric Pref. p. ix It was thought that at Oxford he gave many hours to whist and innocent sociality.
1915 Times 7 Jan. 6/1 There is so much good will and real hearty sociality at the Russian Christmas that drinking does not result in sottish drunkenness or crime.
1939 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 22 Aug. 3/3 Those little circles, three, four, six, eight men and women, meeting frequently, with great sociality.
2006 New Scientist 16 Sept. 49/3 The challenge for this generation is to think of sociality as more than the cyber-intimacy of sharing gossip and photographs and profiles.
b. Friendship, companionship, or social interaction with a person or (occasionally) in a certain state; an instance of this. Also in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [noun]
ymonec888
i-mennessec1050
meanc1175
ferredc1200
fellowshipa1225
fellowredc1230
sameningc1230
companyc1275
monec1300
conversationc1340
meanness1340
affinity?c1400
companyingc1443
compernagea1500
frequentation?1520
society1529
convoying1543
companionship1548
companyship1548
combining1552
haunt1552
community1570
unition1584
consociation1593
companionry1595
sodality1602
conversinga1610
converse1610
consorting1611
consociety1624
consociating1625
togetherness1656
association1659
consortiona1682
sociality1758
mixture1764
junction1783
consortation1796
conversancy1798
mingling1819
companionage1838
boon companionship1844
mateship1849
1758 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S.-Amer. II. iii. vii. 378 Thus the French live in an entire sociality and repose with them [sc. Indians inhabiting the l'Isle Royale].
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. i. 6 The loss of your friendship..would strip me of my only remaining solace,—that of sociality in sorrow and complaint.
1831 I. Taylor in J. Edwards Inq. Freedom of Will Introd. p. xxxvii Fatalism..takes its place along with the truths of other exact sciences and should maintain sociality with them.
1863 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Bk. Gen. (xxv. 1–11) 409 Wedlock and the Sabbath, the fountain-heads of sociality with man and God.
1947 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 20 444 Sociometric tests measured direct sociality with classmates.
1999 R. Bauckham God will be in All i. i. 14 Modern individualism can be seen..in the isolation of individuals from sociality with contemporaries.
c. Formal or conventional social interaction. Contrasted with sociability. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > [noun] > in its formal or conventional aspect
sociality1871
1871 Mrs. H. Wood Red Court Farm ix. 128 Conscious of his own deficiency on the score of sociality, (not sociability) and fashion.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 13 Feb. 2/3 She must be content with the ‘sociality’. One hopes it will not degenerate into ‘sociability’.
2.
a. The disposition or tendency to live in a society or to associate with others.
ΘΚΠ
society > [noun] > tendency to
sociality1691
the world > life > biology > balance of nature > relationships of organisms > [noun] > sociality
sociality1775
1691 B. Motte tr. S. F. von Pufendorf Whole Duty of Man i. iii. 48 Though those Precepts of the Law Natural which have a relation to other men may primarily and directly be derived from that Sociality [L. socialitate], which we have laid down as a Foundation, [etc.].
1775 G. White Let. 15 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 193 There is a wonderful spirit of sociality in the brute creation.
1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. ix. 16 That regulated sociality which required the control of individual passion from every one.
1857 W. S. Dallas Carpenter's Zool. (rev. ed.) I. iii. 120 The disposition to domestication may be considered as the extreme development of the instinct of sociality.
1927 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 21 761 The contemporary era is in no way characterized by the augmentation of sociality and the diminution of individualism.
1971 Times 23 Jan. 14/5 Man belongs with his fellows. His ‘sociality’ is as much part of him as his ‘personality’.
2006 Y. Aiko in B. Jahn Classical Theory in Internat. Relations v. 101 The dominant theory of the age holds that man's natural sociality leads to the establishment of a government/state.
b. Social organization or behaviour in animals; the tendency to live, or the fact of living, in a community of individuals of the same species which cooperate with one another to their mutual or collective benefit. Cf. social adj. 6b.Sociality in animals is exhibited in varying degrees, from a mere tendency to live in proximity to others to cooperative care for offspring and division of labour between distinct castes. Cf. eusocial adj., subsocial adj. 2.
ΚΠ
1830 J. Rennie Insect Archit. viii. 173 Different broods [of caterpillars] worked in the same social and harmonious manner... This principle of sociality is not confined to the same species, nor even to the same genus.
1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 429 This is precisely the case with the burrowing wasps..; their sociality is of no higher order than that which exists amongst the inhabitants of the same street.
1858 W. Smith Thorndale (ed. 2) 337 The monkey owes something of his activity, and something no doubt of his sociality, to this home-bred pest.
1899 J. Fiske Through Nature to God ii. ix. 105 As soon as sociality became established, and Nature's supreme end became the maintenance of the clan organization.
1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes xvii. 291 The monkey's sociality.
1978 Sci. Amer. Sept. 139/1 The order also includes many nonsocial species, and the surprising fact is that sociality has originated on a number of separate occasions among the bees, the ants and the wasps.
2005 New Scientist 15 Jan. 42/3 The fact that these insects have evolved sociality perhaps a dozen times owes much to their curious method of sex determination.
3. In plural. Social pleasantries, events, or entertainments.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > [noun]
special occasion1574
affair1736
functiona1792
event1820
doa1824
socialities1825
occasion1855
time1878
1788 Beatrice II. lxviii. 180 I ask not for..apathy of feeling, nor can divest it in my ideas, from a something extremely unamiable; insensible to all the better socialities of life.
1825 C. Lamb Wedding in Elia 2nd Ser. In the participated socialities of the little community, I lay down for a brief while my solitary bachelorship.
1861 A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes xiv. 498 Another winter passed pleasantly away. Not, however, without its socialities, its soirées and dinners.
1891 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 150 358/2 The socialities of life..require for their satisfactory working a certain amount of ignorance.
1920 Jrnl. Internat. Ethics 30 443 We could as little spare the great individuality of a Newman with his ‘isolation’, as we could the powerful individuality of a Johnson with his endless socialities.
1964 G. Battiscombe John Keble i. 7 A thoroughly feminine woman..not above enjoying the small-town socialities of Fairford, and the excitement of arranging a tea-party.
1995 A. R. Stone War of Desire & Technol. iii. 72 People on the chat system held occasional parties at which those who lived in reasonable geographic proximity would gather to exchange a few socialities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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