AMIABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amiableness mean? 

• AMIABLENESS (noun)
  The noun AMIABLENESS has 1 sense:

1. a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to)

  Familiarity information: AMIABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMIABLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

affability; affableness; amiability; amiableness; bonhomie; geniality

Hypernyms ("amiableness" is a kind of...):

friendliness (a friendly disposition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amiableness"):

condescendingness; condescension (affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank)

mellowness (geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana)

sweetness and light (a mild reasonableness)

Derivation:

amiable (disposed to please)

 Context examples 

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.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

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 ill-humour at Randalls, that his amiableness never failed him during the rest of his stay at Hartfield.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)