social
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/
ipa: /ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
rhymes: -əʊʃəl
Forms: form: more social
form: most social
Etymology: From Middle French social, from Latin sociālis (“of or belonging to a companion or companionship or association, social”), from socius (“a companion, fellow, partner, associate, ally”), from sequor (“follow”). Cognate with English seg (“man, companion, fellow”). More at seg.
Senses: examples: text: James is a very social guy; he knows lots of people.
text: Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it—would they let me—since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one lodges in.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 1:
glosses: Being extroverted or outgoing.
examples: text: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
ref: 2012 January 24, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2012, page 70:
text: Teresa feels uncomfortable in certain social situations.
text: Unemployment is a social problem.
glosses: Of or relating to society.
examples: text: social gaming
glosses: Relating to social media or social networks.
examples: the Social War
glosses: Relating to a nation's allies.
examples: text: a social insect
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Cooperating or growing in groups.
Derived terms: anti-social
anti-social personality disorder
biosocial
box social
chronosocial
corporate social responsibility
cybersocial
dissocial
dissocialize
ecosocial
ethnosocial
eusocial
extrasocial
geosocial
heterosocial
homosocial
hypersocial
ice cream social
ice-cream social
intersocial
macrosocial
medicosocial
microsocial
necktie social
nonsocial
parasocial
physicosocial
presocial
prosocial
pseudosocial
psychosocial
quasisocial
semisocial
shadow social
socdem
sociable
social action
social affairs minister
social alienation
social anthropologist
social anthropology
social anxiety
social anxiety disorder
social atom
social autopsy
social battery
social bookmarking
social butterfly
social capital
social circle
social class
social climber
social climbing
social club
social cohesion
social collaboration
social collapse
social column
social columnist
social commentary
social commerce
social compact
social conditioning
social conflict paradigm
social conscience
social conservatism
social conservative
social construct
social constructionism
social constructionist
social constructivism
social constructivist
social contagion
social contract
social control
social coupon
social credit
social creditism
social cue
social Darwinism
social death
social democracy
social democrat
social democratic
social disease
social distance
social distancing
social drinker
social dynamics
social eating
social ecology
social engineer
social engineering
social entrepreneur
social entrepreneurship
social envy
social event
social evil
social evolutionism
social fascism
social fascist
social function
social grace
social graph
social group
social handbag
social hangover
social history
social housing
social hygiene
social immunity
social imperialism
social infertility
social informatics
social insect
social insurance
social insurance number
socialise
social isolation
social issue
socialist
socialite
socialization
socialize
social jet lag
social justice
social justice warrior
social-justice warrior
social ladder
social landlord
social liberal
social liberalism
social life
social listening
social loafing
social lubricant
socially
social marginality
social media
social media intelligence
social medium
social mobility
social movement
social murder
socialness
social network
social networking
social nicety
social notworking
social occasion
social order
social orphan
social outcast
social partnership
social pattern
social philosophy
social phobia
social physics
social piranha
social policy
social power
socialpreneur
social profile
social programming
social project management
social promotion
social proof
social psychology
social realism
social recession
social recruiting
social responsibility
social roll
social safety net
socialscape
social science
social scientist
social season
social secretary
social security
social service
social services
social sharing
social skills
social smoker
social spam
social standing
social station
social status
social stigma
social studies
social supermarket
social tariff
social trading
social unit
social valence
social wasp
social weaverbird
social welfare
social whale
social work
social worker
SOCMINT
subsocial
supersocial
technosocial
ultrasocial
Related terms: sociality
societal