sociableness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SO'CIABLENESS, noun Disposition to associate; inclination to company and converse; or actual frequent union in society or free converse. This word may signify either the disposition to associate, or the disposition to enter into familiar conversation, or the actual practice of associating and conversing.
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