Crossword clues for sociability
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sociability \So`cia*bil"i*ty\, n.[Cf. F. sociabilit['e].] The quality of being sociable; sociableness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Middle French sociabilite, from Latin sociabilis (see sociable).
Wiktionary
n. The skill, tendency or property of being sociable or social, of interacting well with others.
WordNet
n. the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows [syn: sociableness] [ant: unsociability]
Usage examples of "sociability".
Therefore, while fully admitting that force, swiftness, protective colours, cunningness, and endurance to hunger and cold, which are mentioned by Darwin and Wallace, are so many qualities making the individual, or the species, the fittest under certain circumstances, we maintain that under any circumstances sociability is the greatest advantage in the struggle for life.
The frantic activity and sociability of their ancestors long abandoned, these burrowing rat-mouths spent their lives in holes in the ground, waiting for something to fall into their mouths.
The confreries provided a context of life that was intensely sociable, with the solace and sometimes the abrasions that sociability implies.
Therefore we find, at the top of each class of animals, the ants, the parrots, and the monkeys, all combining the greatest sociability with the highest development of intelligence.
I have travelled much, I have deeply studied men, individually and in a body, but I have never met with true sociability except in Frenchmen.
When not working, writing, or trying to coax sociability out of his anti-social cat, Allyn can usually be found watching Doctor Who videos.
He had broken the glass curtain of sociability with which they were covering up an uncomfortable situation.
Here, too, gardens were more formal and set between wide expanses of pavement, as if people walking across the man-made plazas in their pursuit of business or sociability might wish to pause and enjoy the fragrance and color of the natural world.
I would also include pleasures of many kinds which seem harmless and good at the time, and are pursued because many accept them—I mean conventionalities, sociabilities, and fashions in their various development, these being mostly approved by the masses, although they may be unreal, and even unhealthy superfluities.
The meetings of such groups, the vehicles of both social action and sociability, were the framework of life in any small community, but here in the city they seemed much less important.