PERSONABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does personableness mean? 

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

1. the complex of attributes that make a person socially attractive

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSONABLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The complex of attributes that make a person socially attractive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

personality (the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual)

Meronyms (parts of "personableness"):

sociability; sociableness (the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows)

Derivation:

personable ((of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality)

 Context examples 

In fact, as I have long been convinced, though every profession is necessary and honourable in its turn, it is only the lot of those who are not obliged to follow any, who can live in a regular way, in the country, choosing their own hours, following their own pursuits, and living on their own property, without the torment of trying for more; it is only their lot, I say, to hold the blessings of health and a good appearance to the utmost: I know no other set of men but what lose something of their personableness when they cease to be quite young."

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)