sociable
adjective
inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.
sociableness
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a word derived from
sociable.
Example Sentences
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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
And now all this atmosphere of quiet sociableness was about to be destroyed through the paltry misdemeanours of a subfuse cat.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
Human terror at superiority over natural law is highly ludicrous when the superiority is evinced as though it were ordinary, negligible, and compatible with sociableness.
From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson
Clearness, reasonableness, sociableness, were the highest requirements -153-of art; and any excessive expression of the poet's individuality was entirely disapproved of.
From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn
"The outer beach in winter ain't exactly a camp-meeting for sociableness," he said.
From Cap'n Eri by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
