sociality

1. 1.

   the tendency to associate with others and to form social groups

   “mammals as a class are not strong on sociality”

   Broadernature

   Narrowersociability

Other forms of sociality

plural

socialities·

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 sociality

What does sociality mean?

sociality means "the tendency to associate with others and to form social groups".

How many syllables are in sociality?

sociality has 5 syllables: so-ci-a-li-ty. The stress falls on "a".

Is sociality a common word?

sociality 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.