What's the difference between gregarious and sociable?

Gregarious


Definition:

  • (a.) Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rubens is not a solitary source of painterly genius, but a gregarious master who never hid his own quotations of earlier art.
  • (2) Cytological features are in agreement with the gregarious behaviour of cockroaches.
  • (3) Path analysis procedures were used to test a causal model that concerns possible antecedent conditions in relation to gregarious drinking patterns.
  • (4) He inherited his father's calculation and his mother's gregariousness and style.
  • (5) Backstage, Gabbana – the more gregarious of the two – will talk about fashion as fantasy, last season explaining his vision thus: “I have this life … I want to be happy.
  • (6) Famously, she lit a lamp in her window, as a welcoming sign to the vast Irish diaspora; deliberately – there was no lack of steel in her campaign, and she quickly showed a willingness to exploit the gaffes of often incompetent rivals – she made herself less private and austere, acquiring suits by Irish designers, trying, above all, to be more open and approachable, more, she told Byrne, like her own warm, gregarious mother.
  • (7) The imposing and gregarious Midlands-born banker tried and failed to buy Northern Rock before it was nationalised in February 2008 and then missed out on 318 Royal Bank of Scotland branches last year.
  • (8) Little wonder that tactless buyers at Asda rubber-stamped the rapidly withdrawn "Mental Patient" fancy dress costume when "mental" is routinely worn as a badge of gregarious honour.
  • (9) These patients also showed significant differences on the MCMI asocial, gregarious, and neurotic depression scales.
  • (10) Passive avoidance learning occupies a central role in accounts of disinhibited behavior, ranging from psychopaths' persistent criminality (Hare 1970) to extraverts' gregariousness (Gray, 1972).
  • (11) Bank swallows nest gregariously in colonies usually ranging from 10 to 300 nests.
  • (12) When we sit down for a more formal interview in his Manhattan hotel room a few hours later, Ross's earlier gregarious anecdotes are replaced by aphorisms that could come straight off one of those inspirational posters you see in recruitment consultant offices.
  • (13) Light-microscopically, pleomorphic tumor cells clustered gregariously and often formed alveolar structures.
  • (14) American Indians and Hispanos have a greater tendency to drink gregariously, to drink more, and to have more disruption in social role functioning.
  • (15) Females of two hamster species with contrasting degrees of gregariousness were tested for social influences on the timing of sexual maturation.
  • (16) He is a gregarious media grandee, who was born into the royal family of UK showbusiness.
  • (17) 2) Traditionals, healthy at both ages, were gregarious and nurturant.
  • (18) "Affectionately known as ­Corporal Hamer in the office, he was a gregarious figure, a wonderful friend who was hugely popular with his colleagues.
  • (19) When female dwarf hamsters (Phodopus sungorus campbelli), a gregarious species, were housed with an adult male at weaning, they began estrous cycles significantly earlier than when they were housed alone or with their family.
  • (20) Experiments were performed to evaluate the status of antibacterial defensive responses in M. sexta larvae parasitized by this gregarious endoparasitoid.

Sociable


Definition:

  • (n.) A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable.
  • (n.) A carriage having two double seats facing each other, and a box for the driver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
  • (2) The sociable friendly infants received higher scores on both cognitive tests than the less sociable babies did.
  • (3) Emotionality, activity, sociability and impulsivity (EASI) and components of each trait were studied in a sample of 137 pairs of young twins (two to six years of age) and their parents (548 individuals).
  • (4) But fear not - if you'd like to find companionship or love, sign up here to view profiles of the kind of erudite, sociable and friendly folk who would never normally dream of going out with you.
  • (5) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
  • (6) If you’re not sociable you don’t last long,” says Alex, “but if you can get along with people you make friends for life almost immediately, from all over the world.” She isn’t alone.
  • (7) Manifest in the preschool years, autism always affects sociability, communication, and the child's repertoire of activities and interests.
  • (8) The multiple motive hypothesis of physical attractiveness suggests that women are attracted to men whose appearances elicit their nurturant feelings, who appear to possess sexual maturity and dominance characteristics, who seem sociable, approacheable, and of high social status.
  • (9) Tests set up with isolated mice of two groups (aggressive and "fearful") evidenced that diazepam and medazepam weaken the behavioral manifestations of the partner's avoidance, increase sociability in "fearful" mice and help to regain the ability for elementary intraspecies contacts.
  • (10) The results have shown the improvement not only in movement possibilities of the patients, but also the improvement in majority of the psychological parameters (IQ, emotionality, sociability scale etc.
  • (11) I can understand why this blurring of boundaries has happened: TV is a very informal, sociable industry.
  • (12) She's sociable, she loves children - we've got four.
  • (13) Measures of the home environment were, however, correlated with measures of infant sociability (assessed inside and outside the test situation): sociable infants had sociable mothers.
  • (14) Their sociability is seen in their attraction to peers, their directing to peers of such distinctively social behaviors as vocalizations, smiles, and gestures, and the predominantly friendly nature of their behavior.
  • (15) Strong relationships were found between both measures of sociability and both measures of cognitive competence.
  • (16) Secure classification in the Strange Situation was associated with quality of secure-base behavior at home (i.e., higher Q-sort security scores) and with sociability, but not with dependency scores.
  • (17) Individual unfolding that depends on the sociable conditions is mainly discussed in two parts of interrogation: What form and idea of aged people does the society have?
  • (18) He's a very nice chap and very sociable, but I don't think at this stage he's of any use to the newspaper," he confesses.
  • (19) It also made them feel more alert, steady, sociable, and strong.
  • (20) ; millions of excess neurons = 8900, 8650, 8550; IQ = 107, 100, 85); maturational delay (age to walk alone, age of first intercourse, age of death); sexual restraint (ovulation rate, intercourse frequencies, sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS); quiescent temperament (aggressiveness, anxiety, sociability); and social organization (law abidingness, marital stability, mental health).