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sociability

/so-shuh-bil-i-tee/US // ˌsɒ ʃəˈbɪl ɪ ti //

社会性,交际能力,交际性,社交能力

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or an instance of being sociable.
    • : the quality, state, disposition, or inclination of being sociable.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounamiability

Examples

  • Although he called them “false eagles” who “ill become so high a rank,” he couldn’t ignore their strange alertness, sociability, and curiosity.

  • The iPhone is not so much an expression of sociability, as the realization of the desire to be alone in company, or to find company when alone.

  • But her sociability and openness will make her a good partner for Will, balancing his introversion with her outgoing nature.

  • He was a freak in a noisy, amiable country that has sociability wired into its DNA.

  • They were all Southerners and inclined to be friendly, but nothing in the stranger's attitude invited sociability.

  • Cigars were lighted, and a sense of sociability and enjoyment suffused itself, like a perfume, among the group.

  • Sociability, tolerance, humanity, these first virtues of all morality are totally in compatible with religious prejudices.

  • There is neither sociability, or rational enjoyment, to be had in these very large assemblies.

  • His fortune, his learning, his sociability attracted the younger literary set toward him.