sociability

How To Use sociability In A Sentence

• In the working-class saloons that lined the roughest sections of late nineteenth-century Chicago, refusing a man's treat violated rules of plebeian sociability and thus frequently triggered brawls.
• These blend sociability and conversation, keynotes of the Scottish Enlightenment, with more universal practices such as commensality and drinking. OUPblog
• In which latter situation the accumulation of the sensorial power of irritation increases by its superabundance the associability of the fibres of the stomach, so as to overbalance the defect of the excitement of their association. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
• Coffee houses were a reflection of the emerging middle class, with its emphasis on discussion, exploration of ideas, sobriety and refined sociability.
• Uttered unselfconsciously, it was voiced metrically, just to give lilt and play to a phrase, or phatically, not to express an idea but to establish sociability like the quack of a duck, song of a swan, or purr of a cat. The Truth Will Out.
• Decreases in associability that occur as a stimulus is found to have either no consequence (‘latent inhibition’ 36) or a consistent consequence, are affected by manipulations of the hippocampus.
• In that case the link in catenation, that is, the first of the associate train, is rendered torpid by defect of excitement of its usual quantity of the sensorial power of association, and from there being no accumulation of the sensorial power of irritation to increase its associability, and thus to contribute to actuate it by overbalancing the defect of the excitement of its association. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
• Practised with restraint, it proves useful, whereas in excess it leads to eccentricity and insociability. [ Michel de Montaigne
• By now we're also well versed in the sociability of the canal, greeting fellow boaters effusively and chatting with passers-by at locks, where we are often the main attraction.
• The accusations of unsociability, of individualism, of aristocratism, were closely connected with this particular mood.