单词 | societal |
释义 | societal (once / 17105 pages) adj Use the adjective societal to describe something that is related to society, like the societal changes that came about as a result of the civil rights movement. People living together in a community make up a society, and anything connected to that group can be described as societal. Societal pressures are expectations that affect the entire community, or specific parts of it, like the pressure to get married and have children. Society, which is at the root of societal, has been used since the 1500s to mean "friendly association with others." The meaning shifted in the next one hundred years to refer specifically to an orderly community of people. WORD FAMILYsocietal: societally+/society: societal, societies USAGE EXAMPLESQ: Are there societal benefits to the medical data business? Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) In the past year, such attacks tended to exacerbate Turkey’s deep societal divisions. Time(Jan 01, 2017) “Societal reconciliation is the appropriate answer to Daesh,” he said recently. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) adj relating to human society and its members societal evolution societal forces Syn social |
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