sociableness

Other forms of sociableness

plural

sociablenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sociableness

What does sociableness mean?

sociableness means "the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows".

How many syllables are in sociableness?

sociableness has 5 syllables: so-ci-a-ble-ness. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for sociableness?

Close synonyms include sociability. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sociableness a common word?

sociableness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.