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Definition: Gregariousness |
GregariousnessNoun1. The quality of being gregarious--having a dislike of being alone. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gregariousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
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| "Gregariousness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gregariousness" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "gregariousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | العشرة, إلفة (nearness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стадност. (various references) | |
Czech | spoleèenskost. (various references) | |
French | grégarisme, sociabilité. (various references) | |
German | geselligkeit (chumminess, companionability, conviviality, fellowship, folksiness, sociability, social gathering, social intercourse). (various references) | |
Greek | ζωή κατ' αγελάσ, αγελαίο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ע"ריות (herd instinct), חברתיות (sociability). (various references) | |
Hungarian | társas jelleg, csoportos természet. (various references) | |
Italian | veglia danzante (chumminess, folksiness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 群居 , 群居 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぐ"きょ. (various references) | |
Manx | sheshaghtagh (accompanist, companionable), griaghtys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egariousnessgray.(various references) | |
Russian | стадность (pack-running), общительность (good fellowship, good-fellowship, joviality, sociability, socialities, sociality). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | društvenost (amiability, sociability, sociality). (various references) | |
Spanish | gregarismo, sociabilidad (sociability). (various references) | |
Turkish | toplu halde bulunma, sürü halinde yaşama. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стадність. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gregariousness": gregariousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Gregariousness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gregariuosness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-g-i-n-o-r-r-s-s-s-u" | |
-3 letters: aggressions, regressions, seignorages. | |
-4 letters: aggression, aggressors, egressions, engrossers, gorinesses, greasiness, gregarines, gregarious, grosgrains, orangeries, organisers, rearousing, reassuring, regisseurs, regressing, regression, seignorage, sniggerers, snuggeries. | |
-5 letters: aggresses, aggressor, arsenious, assignees, assigners, assignors, egregious, egressing, egression, engrosser, engrosses, erigerons, garrisons, gasogenes, gneissose, gorgerins, gregarine, grosgrain, ingresses, nurseries, orangerie, organiser, organises, ossuaries, rearguing, rearouses, reasoners, reassigns, reassures. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-g-i-n-o-r-r-s-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: gregariousnesses. | |
+4 letters: counteraggressions. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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