[f. SOCIAL a.] Social quality or character; = SOCIALITY 1.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Sociableness, Socialness, social Temper, Fitness for Conversation.
1843. Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. 41. There is a certainty in us that the disposition to society and socialness, innate to humanity … will have fair play.
1901. G. Matheson, in Expositor, June, 426. Sin is selfishness and morality is socialness.
