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companionability

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Noun1.companionability - suitability to be a companion
sociability, sociableness - the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows

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Instead, observers of the working classes noted a growth in the number of married women workers, the decrease in family size, the increased companionability of working class marriages, and the emergence of an apparently reformed working class masculinity.
He attributes his companionability to the influence of four sisters and has exclusively dated schoolteacher Caroline Fentress through most of his teen idol years - and proposed to her last fall.
Historians have discussed the increasing emphasis on heterosociability and conjugal companionability in the early twentieth century as well as the expectations such changes entailed for female pleasure and male sexual performance.
 
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