socializern.
/ˈsəʊʃəlʌɪzə/, /ˈsəʊʃl̩ʌɪzə/, U.S. /ˈsoʊʃəˌlaɪzər/ 1.
a. A thing which creates a sociable atmosphere or facilitates social interaction.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [noun] > sociable person > one who or that which makes social or sociable
socializer1827
1827 La Belle Assemblée May 218/2 Thus did Mrs. Hopkins and I while away the time until dinner—that exquisite meeting—that socializer, where we open our mouths and hearts.
1871 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 24 Aug. Palsied be the hand that will deal out this rat poison [i.e. alcohol] and call it a socializer, when history shows it has caused so much unhappiness and misery.
1974 H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens iv. 162 The right language at the proper time can serve as a socializer, a relaxing agent, and a positive catalyst to enhance communication.
2001 S. LeVert & G. McClain Compl. Idiot's Guide breaking Bad Habits xi. 116 Alcohol..seems a perfect ‘socializer’ for people who feel anxious at parties or other social situations.
b. A person who participates in social activities; a person who enjoys socializing.
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society > leisure > social event > [noun] > participant
man (also woman, etc.) about town1734
racketer1753
social butterfly1837
socialite1909
socializer1941
1941 Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel 21 July 6/5 Delightful short stories of the happily wedded Cugats. She—lovely, but a sad budgeteer; he—budgetter supreme, but an indifferent socializer.
1978 G. A. Sheehan Running & Being ii. 29 His ‘good life’ is quite different from that of an aggressive football player and the relaxed socializer.
1996 O. Wrigley Politics of Deafness iii. 103 As the only hearing person among some of these international groups of socializers, I felt oddly jealous of their sense of belonging to a spontaneous universality.
2007 Lancaster (Pa.) New Era (Nexis) 6 Apr. a1 The Amish are first-rate socializers. When they are not working or attending church, they're visiting relatives and friends.
2. Chiefly Social Sciences. A person who or thing which socializes someone. Cf. socialize v. 2.
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1859 Freemasons Mag. & Masonic Mirror 29 Oct. 325/2 As a moral teacher, her lessons may have lost to a certain extent their power; but, as a socializer and humanizer of man, she [sc. Freemasonry] stands pre-eminent.
1875 A. Bain Emotions & Will (ed. 3) i. ii. 64 We take farther into account the Parental feeling, in its origin less explicable than the sexual feeling, but even more potent as a socializer.
1940 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 14 224 The official socializer—be he parent, educator, or master—is the representative of the greater authority of society.
1981 Underground Grammarian Oct. 4/1 Our educationists are socializers with political intentions.
1994 M. E. Spiro Culture & Human Nature p. xiii Children may acquire a set of cognitions and motivations which..are the very opposite of the cultural values and norms that their socializers intended to inculcate.
3. A person who or thing which socializes an industry, company, etc.; a person who advocates such socialization. Cf. socialize v. 4.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [noun] > making socialist > one who
socializer1947
1914 Amer. Econ. Rev. 4 129 Both as agitator and as socializer of monopoly privilege, it [sc. socialism] will play a very large part in the future control of industry.
1922 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 21 Nov. 6/6 England had the strength of character to resist the socializers and to save her currency from debauchery.
1947 Times 20 Oct. 5/7 The socializers and decartellizers may expect to be displaced by experts in management and production.
1990 W. J. Samuels & S. G. Medema Gardiner C. Means ii. 16 Capitalism had..been socialized from within, and the socializers had been the corporate officers and their lawyers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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