social valence
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The quality of a robot or other artificial entity to be perceived as more than an object, but as a social agent, like a pet or a person.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Finally, robots, more so than other technology in our lives, have a social valence. They feel different to us, more like living agents."
- "2015, Daniela Hernandez, Let’s not ban sex robots just yet, adriancheok.info We interact with them in ways that we don’t with inanimate appliances. (...) We do this because robots have what experts call “social valence,” meaning we ascribe to them human qualities, like personality."