social
adjective
relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations.
hypersocial
-
a word derived from
social.
Example Sentences
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“We’re not only social, we’re hypersocial, we find safety in numbers, and our brains are very much built to find strong attractions,” Williams, 54, said in an interview.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2022
“Novelists aren’t accustomed to the conversation-centric, hypersocial nature of a writers room,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2021
“Reason is an adaptation to the hypersocial niche humans have evolved for themselves,” Mercier and Sperber write.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 19, 2017
La Puma said birding has become hypersocial, and with the technology anybody can at least document nature so it can be studied later.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 25, 2014
I've got three daughters, none yet 11 years old, who are hypersocial despite growing up amid all manner of video and computer gaming gear.
From Time Magazine Archive
