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Recent Examples of sociality
Add to this the sociality motivation our deep need for companionship, which spikes in moments of loneliness.
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Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Smallville was a petri dish for virtual sociality; rather than watching cells multiply, Park observed the agents gradually coalescing from individual nodes into a unified network.
—Webb Wright, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025
The population of orangutans followed in the study is unique in its routine tool use and level of sociality—both things that require a lot of cognitive energy.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 25 June 2025
One wonders what would happen if their simple form of sociality and collective living evolved into something more cultural and technological.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 28 May 2025
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Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Smallville was a petri dish for virtual sociality; rather than watching cells multiply, Park observed the agents gradually coalescing from individual nodes into a unified network.
—Webb Wright, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025
The population of orangutans followed in the study is unique in its routine tool use and level of sociality—both things that require a lot of cognitive energy.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 25 June 2025
One wonders what would happen if their simple form of sociality and collective living evolved into something more cultural and technological.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sociality
Noun
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The Poodle combines intelligence with sociability.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
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The offspring’s behavior was tested, including communication, sociability, repetitive behaviors, and anxiety.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Your friendliness and energy comes through.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Utah has the best state economy, by my math, which looked at assorted economic grades, job markets, business output, business friendliness and infrastructure.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Getty Images In the study, researchers crafted job adverts that called for a candidate high in one of six personality factors including honesty-humility, emotionality, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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The Tuesday lawsuit claims that agreeableness contributed to Raine’s death.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
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But Trump is testing the limits of their cordiality.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
1 Aug. 2025
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But while Trump and Putin speak of each other with cordiality, relations are testier between the two countries than the rhetoric would indicate.—
Astha Rajvanshi,
NBC news,
26 May 2025
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Riley, a Northern California native, who has always exuded a Zen-like geniality, was part of a generation of young American composers who had turned away from audience-alienating atonal music, which had been proselytized by their teachers in the science-minded postwar academy.—
William Robin,
New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2025
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The farmer’s tendency to pursue high yields obscured the delicate pleasantness this grape gives when handled carefully.—
Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Sociality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sociality. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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