FRIENDLINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does friendliness mean? 

• FRIENDLINESS (noun)
  The noun FRIENDLINESS has 2 senses:

1. a feeling of liking for another person; enjoyment in their company

2. a friendly disposition

  Familiarity information: FRIENDLINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRIENDLINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of liking for another person; enjoyment in their company

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

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

liking (a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment)

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

amicability; amicableness (a disinclination to quarrel)

good will; goodwill (the friendly hope that something will succeed)

brotherhood (the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers)

Antonym:

unfriendliness (dislike experienced as an absence of friendliness)

Derivation:

friendly (inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A friendly disposition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

disposition; temperament (your usual mood)

Attribute:

friendly (characteristic of or befitting a friend)

unfriendly (not disposed to friendship or friendliness)

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

affability; affableness; amiability; amiableness; bonhomie; geniality (a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to))

amicability; amicableness (having a disposition characterized by warmth and friendliness)

closeness; familiarity; intimacy (close or warm friendship)

accessibility; approachability (the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with)

congeniality (a congenial disposition)

amity; cordiality (a cordial disposition)

good-neighborliness; good-neighbourliness; neighborliness; neighbourliness (a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors)

hospitableness (having a disposition that welcomes guests and is fond of entertaining)

helpfulness; kindliness (friendliness evidence by a kindly and helpful disposition)

Antonym:

unfriendliness (an unfriendly disposition)

Derivation:

friendly (characteristic of or befitting a friend)

 Context examples 

They quickly learned to leave him alone, neither venturing hostile acts nor making overtures of friendliness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"But I can't understand his friendliness toward you—unless it's because you're from the Klondike. He's a Klondike dog, you know."

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

He could not re-thumb himself in a day, nor could he violate the intrinsic kindliness of his nature; so, at such moments, he smiled at the girls in warm human friendliness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mrs. Fairfax received me with her usual plain friendliness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Their attention to our comfort, their friendliness in every particular, is more than I can express.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She was warmly gratified—and in another moment still more so, by a little movement of more than common friendliness on his part.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The friendliness of this gentleman, said Mr. Micawber to my aunt, if you will allow me, ma'am, to cull a figure of speech from the vocabulary of our coarser national sports—floors me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Every movement advertised commingled threatening and overture of friendliness.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Anne thought she left great happiness behind her when they quitted the house; and Louisa, by whom she found herself walking, burst forth into raptures of admiration and delight on the character of the navy; their friendliness, their brotherliness, their openness, their uprightness; protesting that she was convinced of sailors having more worth and warmth than any other set of men in England; that they only knew how to live, and they only deserved to be respected and loved.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

What he might have done I did not fully realize till next day, when he put his head into the galley, and, as a sign of renewed friendliness, asked me how my arm was getting on.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)