CORDIALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cordiality mean? 

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

1. a cordial disposition

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORDIALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cordial disposition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

amity; cordiality

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

friendliness (a friendly disposition)

Derivation:

cordial (diffusing warmth and friendliness)

cordial (politely warm and friendly)

 Context examples 

“I was so surprised at first,” said I, giving him welcome with all the cordiality I felt, “that I had hardly breath to greet you with, Steerforth.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was deeply displeased by what had occurred that day; cordiality would not warm, nor tears move him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They were received with great cordiality.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Why, Lieutenant Stone, said he, with great cordiality, holding out his left hand to my father, I am very glad to see you.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He opened the door himself, however, and greeted me with a great show of cordiality.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From that day, amid all his cordiality, there was always a touch of suspicion in Mr. Trevor’s manner towards me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Don't mention it," Messner broke in with exaggerated cordiality of voice and manner.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

And I observed that she always spoke of you as 'Fanny,' which she was never used to do; and it had a sound of most sisterly cordiality.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I was startled, I confess, by the alteration in his manners this morning;—he did not speak like himself, and did not return your kindness with any cordiality.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The beginning, however, of every visit displayed none but the properest feelings, and this being of necessity so short might be hoped to pass away in unsullied cordiality.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)