amiableness

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a·mi·a·ble

(ā′mē-ə-bəl)

adj.

1. Friendly and agreeable in disposition; good-natured and likable.

2. Cordial; sociable; congenial: an amiable gathering.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin amīcābilis; see amicable.]

a′mi·a·bil′i·ty, a′mi·a·ble·ness n.

a′mi·a·bly adv.

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Noun

amiableness - a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to)

affability, affableness, bonhomie, geniality, amiability

friendliness - a friendly disposition

condescendingness, condescension - affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank; "the queen's condescension was intended to make us feel comfortable"

mellowness - geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana

sweetness and light - a mild reasonableness; "when he learned who I was he became all sweetness and light"

amiableness

noun

The quality of being pleasant and friendly:

affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, congeniality, congenialness, cordiality, cordialness, friendliness, geniality, genialness, pleasantness, sociability, sociableness, warmth.

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These days of confinement would have been, but for her private perplexities, remarkably comfortable, as such seclusion exactly suited her brother, whose feelings must always be of great importance to his companions; and he had, besides, so thoroughly cleared off his illhumour at Randalls, that his amiableness never failed him during the rest of his stay at Hartfield.

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"We cannot prove to the contrary, to be sure; but I wish you a better fate, Miss Price, than to be the wife of a man whose amiableness depends upon his own sermons; for though he may preach himself into a good-humour every Sunday, it will be bad enough to have him quarrelling about green geese from Monday morning till Saturday night."

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I am by no means indifferent to the manner in which whatever moral tendencies exist in the sentiments or characters it contains shall affect the reader; yet my chief concern in this respect has been limited to the avoiding the enervating effects of the novels of the present day, and to the exhibition of the amiableness of domestic affection, and the excellence of universal virtue.

Frankenstein: the myth of dark creation

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