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sociality|səʊʃɪˈælɪtɪ|
[ad. F. socialité (It. socialità) or L. sociālitas: see social a. and -ity.]
1. a. The state or quality of being social; social intercourse or companionship with one's fellows, or the enjoyment of this.
a1649in N. & Q. Ser. i. X. 357 Socialitie becometh the person of the gravest man, soe as he neglect not the due consideration of time, place, and persons. 1658Phillips, Sociality, fellowship, company. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. §1. 420 The Pleasures of Sociality and Mirth. 1775F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 94 The Dean is a man of drollery, good humour, and sociality. 1823Scott Quentin D. vii, The good Lord kissed the wine-cup by way of parenthesis, remarking, that sociality became Scottish gentlemen. a1881A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric Pref. p. ix, It was thought that at Oxford he gave many hours to whist and innocent sociality.
b. With pl. A social act or function.
1825Lamb Elia ii. Wedding, In the participated socialities of the little community, I lay down for a brief while my solitary bachelorship. 1861Geikie Mem. E. Forbes xiv. 498 Another winter passed pleasantly away. Not, however, without its socialities, its soirées and dinners. 1891Blackw. Mag. CL. 358/2 The socialities of life..require for their satisfactory working a certain amount of ignorance.
c. Contrasted with sociability: Social intercourse in its formal or conventional aspect.
1871Mrs. H. Wood Red Court Farm ix. 128 Conscious of his own deficiency on the score of sociality, (not sociability) and fashion. 1897Westm. Gaz. 13 Feb. 2/3 She must be content with the ‘sociality’. One hopes it will not degenerate into ‘sociability’.
2. The action or fact on the part of individuals of forming a society or of associating together; the disposition, impulse, or tendency to do this.
(a)1775G. White Selborne lxvi, There is a wonderful spirit of sociality in the brute creation. 1834McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 429 This is precisely the case with the burrowing wasps..; their sociality is of no higher order than that which exists amongst the inhabitants of the same street. 1932S. Zuckerman Soc. Life Monkeys & Apes xvii. 291 The monkey's sociality. 1966R. M. Lockley Grey Seal, Common Seal ix. 125 The puzzling feature of the sociality of the Farne grey seals is that they continue to crowd together to nurse their pups on certain of the islets only. 1978Sci. Amer. Sept. 139/1 The order also includes many nonsocial species, and the surprising fact is that sociality has originated on a number of separate occasions among the bees, the ants and the wasps.
(b)1839I. Taylor Theory Another Life (1847) II. 22 The basis of..communion or sociality among intelligent orders. 1847Grote Greece ii. ix. III. 16 That regulated sociality which required the control of individual passion from every one. 1899Fiske Through Nature to God ii. ix. 105 As soon as sociality became established, and Nature's supreme end became the maintenance of the clan organization.
3. Companionship or fellowship in or with some thing or person.
1806J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life i. 5 My only remaining solace,—that of sociality in sorrow and complaint. 1831I. Taylor in Edwards Freedom Will Pref. p. xxxvii, Fatalism..takes its place along with the truths of other exact sciences and should maintain sociality with them. 1863J. G. Murphy Comm., Gen. xxv. 1–11, Wedlock and the Sabbath, the fountain-heads of sociality with man and God. |