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sociableness

  • a word derived from sociable.
    sociable
    adjective
    inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.

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And such was Mr. Clare's sociableness and disability of detaching himself from pleasant conversation, that the uncle and nephew scarcely started for their walk across the park in time for the seven o'clock service.

From Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte Mary Yonge

The sociableness, the discipline, the division of responsibility make factory work a dangerous rival to domestic care.

From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Marie Van Vorst

It would be hard to describe adequately the friendliness and complete sociableness of these neighborhood gatherings.

From A Northern Countryside by Rosalind Richards

There is nowhere a kindlier and more unaffected sociableness.

From Castilian Days by John Hay

But of this sociableness William was entirely destitute.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay