Word.ws English Dictionary

social batteries

social batteries is the plural of social battery.

Meaning of social battery

Noun

social battery (plural social batteries)

  1. (figuratively, in plural, informal, often) A notional battery representing one's energy for socializing, with the need to be periodically recharged.
    • Although I enjoyed many social aspects of school, as an introvert I found some days particularly long and exhausting. These were times when books really came into their own for me, as I retreated into the school library to recharge my social batteries.2016 November 11, Fleur Morrison, “Introverts Can Be Saved By The Book”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2023
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see social, battery.
    • In the former case he may expose himself to a social battery of hostile criticism or even obloquy; […]1881 September 3, “The Opportunity of Unitarianism”, in The Christian Life: A Unitarian Journal, volume 7, London, →OCLC, page 432

Questions about social batteries

What is social batteries the plural of?
Social batteries is the plural of social battery.

Words near social batteries in the dictionary

  1. social anxiety disorders
  2. social atom
  3. social atoms
  4. social autopsies
  5. social autopsy
  6. social batteries
  7. social battery
  8. social bookmarking
  9. Social Brethren
  10. social butterflies
  11. social butterfly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: social batteries (page history and authors); social battery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “social batteries.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/social_batteries. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.