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/sˌəʊʃɪˈælɪti/
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NOUN
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the tendency to associate with others and to form social groups
mammals as a class are not strong on sociality
How To Use sociality In A Sentence
- Perhaps most of China's enterprises companies are at the state of arterialize sociality, which means taking time to learn, organize, restructure.
- Experts with Gymboree said not only adults need sociality, children from newborns to five-year-olds also need an interest in social events.
- However, although it is likely that making individuals active participants in community-building programmes enhances their communicativeness and sociality, there is no guarantee that 'developed' communities would 'reach out' across the ethno-sectarian divide.
- Furthermore, the inclusion of only two independent origins of sociality (in honeybees and vespid wasps) limited the conclusions that could be drawn concerning the effect of sociality on molecular evolution.
- Relatedness concepts have dominated the discussion on the evolution and maintenance of eusociality in social insects.
- The novelty of this book is that it counterposes sociobiology to developmental biology rather than its traditional foe, anti-biological approaches to human sociality.
- Natural selection has equipped us with a religious longing for dialogue with supernatural beings, and this propensity has in turn fostered a sense of "sociality" and other emotions essential to dealing with the omnipresent threat of extinction at the hands of nature and hostile human groups. Commonweal Magazine
- In firm and lofty character, pain is mastered; in a character so little endowed with cool tenacious strength as Rousseau's, pain such as he endured was enough to account, not for his unsociality, which flowed from temperament, but for the bitter, irritable, and suspicious form which this unsociality now first assumed. Rousseau
- Less obvious in its function in sociality than sight and hearing, olfaction still mediates relationships between subjects.
- Fuller-figured endomorphs were given to viscerotonia, characterized by 'relaxation, extraversion of affect, love of food, sociality, etc'. The Times Literary Supplement