gregariousness

Variant of gregarious

adjective

  1. living in herds or flocks
  2. fond of the company of others; sociable
  3. having to do with a herd, flock, or crowd
  4. Bot. growing in clusters

Origin: L gregarius, belonging to a flock < grex (gen. gregis), a flock, herd < IE base *ger-, to collect > Gr ageirein, to assemble

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