sociality

Noun

sociality (countable and uncountable, plural socialities)

1. The character of being social; sociability
   • Unless opinions favorable to democracy and to aristocracy, to property and to equality, to co-operation and to competition, to luxury and to abstinence, to sociality and individuality, to liberty and discipline, and all the other standing antagonisms of practical life, are expressed with equal...1859, John Stuart Mill, “Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion”, in On Liberty, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC, page 86
2. The quality of an animal kind of being social.
   • That the divine will is expressed by it, Cumberland, “not being so fortunate as to possess innate ideas,” tries to prove by a long inductive examination of the evidences of man's essential sociality exhibited in his physical and mental constitution.1911, “Ethics”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
   • To develop, from a fleeting instant of physical lust, a lifelong community encompassing the whole of the conjoint lives--that has been and is one of the greatest triumphs of sociality in the struggle against the persistent animality of our species.1985, James Q. Wilson, Richard J. Herrnstein, Crime & Human Nature, page 524
3. (in plural) Social events or entertainments; pleasantries.
   • [A]fterwards he had no leisure for the game, and no inclination for the socialities there.1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book VII, chapter 66