Friendliness
['fren(d)lɪnɪs] or ['frɛndlɪnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) a friendly disposition.
(noun.) a feeling of liking for another person; enjoyment in their company.
Editor: Sonya--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The condition or quality of being friendly.
Editor: Matt
Examples
- They met with the utmost friendliness. Jane Austen. Emma.
- There was no friendliness in the way he asked the question. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This enmity, however, had apparently expired in a renewal of friendliness between the two women. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- What COULD the tastes of that man be who saw friendliness and geniality in these shaggy hills? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They knew we were foreigners and Protestants, and not likely to feel admiration or much friendliness toward them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Now, be so kind as speak for me to your lady and gentleman, and tell 'em what I ask of their good friendliness to let me do, and why I ask it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Till the very close of the evening, he did not indeed address me at all, yet I felt, somehow, that he was full of friendliness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Since Thomasin's marriage Mrs. Yeobright had shown him that grim friendliness which at last arises in all such cases of undesired affinity. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She was warmly gratifiedand in another moment still more so, by a little movement of more than common friendliness on his part. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But Mr. Farebrother met him with the same friendliness as before. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Their attention to our comfort, their friendliness in every particular, is more than I can express. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Once it surprised her notions by remarking upon the friendliness and geniality written in the faces of the hills around. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Mrs. Fairfax received me with her usual plain friendliness. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Let that feeling represent what I could tell you, and commit her to your friendliness with my thanks. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Not that this couple be in want of one, but 'twas well to show 'em a bit of friendliness at this great racketing vagary of their lives. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Edited by Josie