English edit

Etymology edit

hyper- +‎ sociality

Noun edit

hypersociality (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being hypersocial.
    • 2009 March 3, Natalie Angier, “In a Helpless Baby, the Roots of Our Social Glue”, in New York Times[1]:
      “I’m not comfortable accepting this idea that the origins of hypersociality can be found in warfare, or that in-group amity arose in the interest of out-group enmity,” she said in a telephone interview.