"herd-like" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more herd-like [comparative], most herd-like [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} herd-like (comparative more herd-like, superlative most herd-like)
  1. Alternative form of herdlike. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: herdlike
    Sense id: en-herd-like-en-adj-YUXUQxwA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1997, Rosalind W[right] Picard, “Emotions Are Physical and Cognitive”, in Affective Computing, Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT Press, published 2000, →ISBN, section I (Envisioning Affective Computing), page 42:",
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          "text": "First question with regard to hierarchy: how solitary or how herd-like someone is (in the latter case his value lies in the qualities which secure the existence of his herd, his type, in the former case, in what separates, isolates, defends and makes it possible to be solitary.)",
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