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Social

adjective

Relating to human society and its members. Synonym: societal. "Societal evolution" , "Societal forces" , "Social legislation"

Living together or enjoying life in communities or organized groups. "Mature social behavior" Antonym: unsocial.

Relating to or belonging to or characteristic of high society. "A social gossip colum" , "The society page"

Composed of sociable people or formed for the purpose of sociability. "The church has a large social hall" , "A social director"

Tending to move or live together in groups or colonies of the same kind.

Marked by friendly companionship with others.

noun

A party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity. Synonyms: mixer, sociable.

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"Social" Quotes from Famous Books

... him and court-martialled him, In some excess of spleen, For lack of social sympathy, (Victoria ...

— Greybeards at Play • G. K. Chesterton

... substance to think about when she sat, as Lady Otway now sat, knitting white wool, with her eyes fixed almost perpetually upon the same embroidered bird upon the same fire-screen. But then Lady Otway was one of the people for whom the great make-believe game of English social life has been invented; she spent most of her time in pretending to herself and her neighbors that she was a dignified, important, much-occupied person, of considerable social standing and sufficient wealth. In view of the actual ...

— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf

... image rose before her, that of a neighbor, a man still young, whom for the past ten years she had seen driven about in a little carriage by a servant. Was not this infirmity the worst of all ills, the ax stroke that separates a living being from social and ...

— Doctor Pascal • Emile Zola

... lack of entertainment and variety in that town, for people generally seemed to a great extent to have cast off the trammels of social etiquette, both in habits and costume. Many of the horses that passed were made to carry double. Here would ride past a man with a woman behind him; there a couple of girls, or two elderly females. Elsewhere appeared a priest ...

— The Rover of the Andes - A Tale of Adventure on South America • R.M. Ballantyne

... rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord. All the other passions, besides this of interest, are either easily restrained, or are not of such pernicious consequence, when indulged. Vanity is rather to be esteemed a social passion, and a bond of union among men. Pity and love are to be considered in the same light. And as to envy and revenge, though pernicious, they operate only by intervals, and are directed against particular persons, whom we consider ...

— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume

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