Amiability
[,emɪə'bɪləti]
Definition
(n.) The quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of disposition.
Editor: Solomon
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Loveliness, benignity, kindliness, kindness, amiableness, benignity, amenity, kind-heartedness, fellow-feeling, good feeling, good humor, good temper, sweet temper, sweetness of disposition.
Inputed by Carter
Examples
- Suffering and amiability may exist together, and writers have loved to depict their conjunction; there is a human and touching harmony in the picture. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mrs. Vesey looked the personification of human composure and female amiability. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- By going home with Mr. Jarndyce for a day or two, I shall hear the larks sing and preserve my amiability. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His amiability even made her feel brutal towards him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She colored angrily, but took no other notice of that girlish sarcasm, and answered with unexpected amiability. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- These were, the great advantages of the trade, the proficiency of the Dodger, the amiability of Charley Bates, and the liberality of the Jew himself. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Typist: Nelda