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social | necessitude |

In rare|lang=en terms the difference between social and necessitude

is that social is (rare) relating to a nation's allies]] (compare [[w:social war|the social war) while necessitude is (rare) the state or characteristic of being in need; neediness.

As nouns the difference between social and necessitude

is that social is a festive gathering to foster introductions while necessitude is (rare) the state or characteristic of being in need; neediness.

As an adjective social

is being extroverted or outgoing.

social

English

(wikipedia social)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A festive gathering to foster introductions.
    • They organized a social at the dance club to get people to know each other.
  • (Canadian Prairies) A dance held to raise money for a couple to be married.
  • (British, colloquial) for its employees.
    • Fred hated going down to the social to sign on.
  • (US, colloquial)
    • What's your social ?
  • (dated, Ireland) A dinner dance event, usually held annually by a company or sporting club.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being extroverted or outgoing.
    • James is a very social guy; he knows lots of people.
  • Of or relating to society.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Donald Worster , title=A Drier and Hotter Future , volume=100, issue=1, page=70 , magazine= citation , passage=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.}}
    Teresa feels uncomfortable in certain social situations.
    Unemployment is a social problem.
  • (Internet) Relating to social media or social networks.
    • social gaming
  • (rare) Relating to a nation's allies]] (compare [[w:Social War, the Social War)
  • (botany, zoology) Cooperating or growing in groups.
    • a social insect

    Antonyms

    * antisocial * unsocial * asocial

    Derived terms

    * biosocial * parasocial * presocial * pseudosocial * psychosocial * quasisocial * semisocial * social butterfly * social capital * social class * social climber * social cohesion * social collaboration * social collapse * social commentary * social conscience * social conservative * social construct * social democrat * social entrepreneurship * social function * social grace * social ladder * social life * social media * social mobility * social network * social outcast * social psychology * social safety net * social security * social science * social status * social studies * social trading * social work * social worker * sociable * socialist * subsocial

    Related terms

    * sociality

    Statistics

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    necessitude

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) The state or characteristic of being in need; neediness.
  • *1870 , "Lord Kilgobbin," The Cornhill Magazine , vol. 22, p. 521:
  • *:It had been of all things the most harassing and wearying—a life of dreary necessitude —a perpetual struggle with debt.
  • *2001 , Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Cause , ISBN 9780751525380, p. 408:
  • *:Even if she could have faced life without him, she could not go through it all again, the bankruptcy and shame and necessitude .
  • (rare, usually, pluralized) A circumstance or event which is necessary or unavoidable, especially because it is a requirement of a social role or natural state of affairs.
  • *1814 , Félix de Beaujour, Sketch of the United States of North America trans. William Waldon, London, p. 169:
  • *:The Americans. . . fear not the necessitudes of fortune.
  • *1872 , James Parsons, "The Ancient Commonwealth," The American Law Register (1852-1891) , vol. 20, no. 8, New Series vol. 11, p. 485:
  • *:He lives with them in the isolated home of the tribe and enters into the mysterious communion with the domestic gods who still take part in the necessitudes of the family.
  • *1995 , Michael W. McConnell and Edmund Burke, "Establishment and Toleration in Edmund Burke's 'Constitution of Freedom'," The Supreme Court Review , Vol. 1995, p. 437:
  • *:As Conor Cruise O'Brien has pointed out, this passage has a "poignant ring," in light of the probable fact that Burke's father was one of those who betrayed his "duty" by sacrificing his "opinion of eternal happiness" to the necessitudes of legal practice.
  • (rare, chiefly, philosophy) Necessity.
  • *1981 , Graham Dawson, "Justified True Belief Is Knowledge," The Philosophical Quarterly , vol. 31, no. 125: p. 328:
  • *:In Popperian terms, it demonstrates the necessitude of public debate.
  • (archaic) A relation or connection between people or things.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
  • * 1845 , Jeremy Taylor,The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life, described in the History of the Life and Death of our Ever-Blessed Saviour, Jesus Christ , Vol. 1, London, p. 14:
  • *:The relation and necessitude is trifling and loose, and they are all equally contemptible; because the mind entertains no loves or union.

    • Usage notes

    * (term), (necessitousness), (necessitation), (necessariness) are all nouns closely related to (necessity), but they tend to have narrower ranges of usage than the term necessity''. The principal sense of ''necessitude'' and ''necessitousness'' is impoverishment, but the plural form of the former ((necessitudes)) denotes a set of circumstances which is inevitable or unavoidable. ''Necessitation'' is used to suggest necessity as a philosophical or cosmic principle. ''Necessariness tends to be used to stress a direct connection to the adjective (necessary).

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