relatability

[ri-ley-tuh-bil-i-tee]

noun

1. the quality of being able to easily form social or emotional connections.

   Wit, humor, light-heartedness, genuineness, and relatability are all quality ingredients for a personality pie.

   The coach strikes a note of relatability and resonance with his players, having been in their shoes not so long ago.

2. the quality of being easily connected or linked.

   Infants presented with an image lacking alignment and relatability looked significantly longer at the complete image, suggesting that they saw the first image as two separate pieces.

Word History and Origins

Origin of relatability¹

relat(able) ( def. ) + -ability ( def. )

Example Sentences

Here, though, it’s justified because what befalls Ron could happen to anyone, and rooting surreal situations in relatability sparks Robinson’s comedy.

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Throughout her career, Swift has used the internet to engage fans, carefully crafting a sense of relatability.

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“I’m in the business of human emotion,” Swift says during the show, cunningly nodding to the way she’s commodified her feelings and made a profit on relatability.

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Then I saw that coolness and that calmness and that relatability that she is so good at presenting.

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Still, the effect reads more like corporate cosplay: branding designed to mimic the internet’s casual eccentricity, yet polished to within an inch of relatability.

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