Sociability

Definition: Sociability

Sociability

Noun

1. The relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows.

Date "sociability" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1754. (references)

Domain	Definition
Biology & Biotechnology	The tendency of organisms to grow together with others of the same kind. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Sociability

Synonym: sociableness (n). (additional references)

Antonym: unsociability (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Sociality	Noun: sociality, sociability, sociableness; Adjective: social intercourse; consociation; intercourse, intercommunity; consortship, companionship, comradeship; clubbism; esprit de corps.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sociability

English words defined with "sociability": camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship, Conversableness ♦ Dissociability ♦ Inaffability, Insociability ♦ mixer ♦ phatic communication, phatic speech ♦ sociable, social. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sociability": Artificial Sweetener. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Early Socialisation: Sociability and Attachment (Routledge Modular Psychology) (reference) Exploring the Conversible World: Text and Sociability from the Classical Age to the Enlightenment (Yale French Studies, 92) (reference) Fraternity among the French Peasantry : Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815-1914 (reference) Literary Sociability in Late Old Regime France: Beaumarchais, the Society of Dramatic Authors and the Comedie Francais (Studies in European Cultural Transition) (reference) Sociability and Power in Late Stuart-England: The Cultural Worlds of the Verneys 1660-1720 (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		However, one strength of males with Fragile X is their great sociability and friendliness, in contrast to autistic children, who appear unable to relate to others. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Sociability" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sociability" is used about 95 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%	95	33,629

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "sociability"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		të qenët i shoqërueshëm. (various references)

Arabic		‏مؤانسة, ‏حب الاختلاط بالآخرين, ‏اختلاطية إجتماعية. (various references)

Bulgarian		общителност (conviviality, geniality, good fellowship, joviality, mellowness, sociality). (various references)

Czech		družnost (fellowship). (various references)

Danish		social tilpasningsevne (sociableness), selskabelighed. (various references)

Dutch		sociabiliteit (sociableness), neiging tot leven in elkaars gemeenschap. (various references)

Farsi		معاشرت پذیری , قابل معاشرت بودن , جامعه پذیری . (various references)

Finnish		sosiaalisuus. (various references)

French		sociabilité (sociableness). (various references)

German		geselligkeit (chumminess, companionability, conviviality, fellowship, folksiness, gregariousness, social gathering, social intercourse), Gemütlichkeit (approachability, comfortableness, coziness, friendliness, good-naturedness, informality, leisure, pleasantness, snugness, unhurriedness). (various references)

Greek		κοινωνικότητα (sociableness). (various references)

Hebrew		חברתיות (gregariousness), חברותיות (friendliness). (various references)

Hungarian		társas hajlam (sociality), barátkozó természet. (various references)

Italian		socievolezza (neighborliness, neighbourliness, sociality). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		社交性 , 愛想 (civility, compliments, courtesy, graces), に付き (apiece, appearance, because of, impression, per, regarding, slimy, slippery). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゃ�"うせい, につき (apiece, appearance, because of, impression, per, regarding), あいそう (civility, compliments, courtesy, graces), あいそ (appeal, civility, complaint, compliments, courtesy, graces). (various references)

Manx		sheshoilys, cooidjaghtoilaght. (various references)

Pig Latin		ociabilitysay

Portuguese		sociabilidade (conviviality, good-fellowship, sociality). (various references)

Romanian		sociabilitate (joviality, neighborliness, neighbourliness, sociableness, sociality). (various references)

Russian		общительность (good fellowship, good-fellowship, gregariousness, joviality, socialities, sociality). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		društvenost (amiability, gregariousness, sociality). (various references)

Spanish		sociabilidad (gregariousness). (various references)

Swedish		sällskaplighet (sociality). (various references)

Turkish		sosyallik, sokulganlık (affability), girişkenlik (enterprise, gumption, initiative). (various references)

Ukrainian		товариськість (conviviality, joviality, neighborliness, neighbourliness, sociality). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính thích kết bạn, tính dễ gần (good-fellowship), tính dễ chan ho� tính thích giao du. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "sociability": dissociability, insociability, unsociability. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "sociability" (pronounced 'So`cia*bil"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-i-i-l-o-s-t-y"
	-2 letters: sociality.
	-3 letters: basicity, biolytic, biotical, sociably.
	-4 letters: ability, abiotic, albitic, basilic, biotics, citolas, cobalts, colitis, italics, oblasti, sibylic, solicit, stibial, stoical.
	-5 letters: aiolis, alibis, aliyos, aliyot, bialis, bialys, biotas, biotic, blasty, bloats, boylas, cibols, citola, coatis, cobalt, cobias, coital, cosily, costal, costly, italic, oblast, octyls, scotia, sialic, silica, social, stably, tibial, tibias, ticals.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-i-i-l-o-s-t-y"
	+2 letters: insociability, unsociability.
	+3 letters: collapsibility, dissociability.
	+4 letters: syllabification.
	+5 letters: incontestability, syllabifications.
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