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Princeton's WordNet

  1. gregariousnessnoun

    the quality of being gregarious--having a dislike of being alone

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  1. gregariousnessnoun

    The state of being gregarious

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  1. gregariousness

    Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups (gregariousness) and form cooperative societies. Sociality is a survival response to evolutionary pressures. For example, when a mother wasp stays near her larvae in the nest, parasites are less likely to eat the larvae. Biologists suspect that pressures from parasites and other predators selected this behavior in wasps of the family Vespidae. This wasp behaviour evidences the most fundamental characteristic of animal sociality: parental investment. Parental investment is any expenditure of resources (time, energy, social capital) to benefit one's offspring. Parental investment detracts from a parent's capacity to invest in future reproduction and aid to kin (including other offspring). An animal that cares for its young but shows no other sociality traits is said to be subsocial. An animal that exhibits a high degree of sociality is called a social animal. The highest degree of sociality recognized by sociobiologists is eusociality. A eusocial taxon is one that exhibits overlapping adult generations, reproductive division of labor, cooperative care of young, and—in the most refined cases—a biological caste system.

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  1. gregariousness

    Gregariousness refers to the quality of being sociable, outgoing, friendly, and preferring to be in groups rather than alone. It indicates the enjoyment of being in the company of others, a tendency to form and participate in social situations, and an overall openness to communal interactions and activities.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of gregariousness in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of gregariousness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of gregariousness in a Sentence

  1. George Steiner:

    There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.


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