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Definition: Sociality |
SocialityNoun1. The tendency to associate with others and to form social groups: "mammals as a class are not strong on sociality". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sociality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (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. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Henry David Thoreau | Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Sociality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sociality" is used about 23 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% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sociality | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sociality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | aktivitet shoqëror. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | социалност, социален инстинкт, общественост, обществено действие, обществен обичай, общителност (conviviality, geniality, good fellowship, joviality, mellowness, sociability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | társas hajlam (sociability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | socievolezza (neighborliness, neighbourliness, sociability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 社会性 , 付き (appearance, attached to, furnished with, impression, to, under). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゃかいせい, づき (appearance, attached to, furnished with, impression, to, under), つき (a lunge, a pass, a stab, a thrust, appearance, attached to, furnished with, impression, month, moon, to, under). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ocialitysay sociabilidade (conviviality, good-fellowship, sociability), gregarismo (sociability). (various references) sociabilitate (joviality, neighborliness, neighbourliness, sociability, sociableness), obligaţii mondene. (various references) общительность (good fellowship, good-fellowship, gregariousness, joviality, sociability, socialities). (various references) socijalnost, društvenost (amiability, gregariousness, sociability). (various references) socialidad (conviviality). (various references) sällskaplighet (sociability), gemenskapskänsla. (various references) การคบค้าสมาคมกัน. (various references) суспільний інстинкт, співдружність (brotherhood, commonwealth, cooperation, family), товариськість (conviviality, joviality, neighborliness, neighbourliness, sociability). (various references) tính xã hội. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "sociality": homosociality. (additional references) | |
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"Sociality" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asociality, seriality, socialigy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sociality" (pronounced 'So`ci*al"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-c-i-i-l-o-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: citolas, colitis, italics, solicit, stoical. | |
-3 letters: aiolis, aliyos, aliyot, citola, coatis, coital, cosily, costal, costly, italic, octyls, scotia, sialic, silica, social, ticals. | |
-4 letters: acyls, aioli, alist, altos, ascot, calos, cilia, clast, clays, clits, clots, cloys, coals, coaly, coast, coati, coats, coils, colas, colts, costa, icily, iliac, iotas, laics, laity, licit, litai, litas, lotas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-l-o-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: anxiolytics, sociability. | |
+3 letters: antisocially, aoristically, apostolicity, crossability, cyclizations, egoistically, factitiously, historically, holistically, incautiously, insouciantly, isotonically, isotopically, logistically. | |
+4 letters: agonistically, associatively, atomistically, bacteriolysis, bisectionally, egotistically, floristically, homosociality, insociability, isometrically, isosmotically, isostatically, orgiastically, semitonically, sophistically, syllabication, symbiotically, touristically, unsociability, viceroyalties. | |
+5 letters: acrylonitriles, aeroelasticity, aphoristically, apocalypticism, classificatory, collapsibility, coloristically, compensability, cycloadditions, diagnostically, dissociability, eulogistically, hedonistically, histologically, histrionically, hypocoristical, isentropically, jingoistically, lachrymosities, moralistically, novelistically, optimistically, pertinaciously, polytheistical, processability, satisfactorily, syllabications. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 63 69 61 6C 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- -.-. .. .- .-.. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01100011 01101001 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o c i a l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0063 0069 0061 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)538169756778758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Familiar 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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