friendliness
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friendliness
- /ˈfɹɛndlinəs/
Where it comes from
From Middle English freendlynesse, frendlynes, equivalent to friendly + -ness.
noun friendlinesses
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The quality of being friendly.
Finding us easy in our ways, he […] told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw in a
Similar: affability, amicability, bonhomie, geniality, pleasantness, amity, amiability, approachability, cordiality, friendliness · Opposite: hostility, unfriendliness
Opposite: hostility, unfriendliness
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noun
Opposite: hostility, unfriendliness
Translations
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noun the quality of being friendly
| Español | amigabilidad |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 우호 uho, 우정 ujeong |
| 日本語 | 友好 yūkō, 親切 shinsetsu |
| 中文 | 友好 yǒuhǎo, 親切 /亲切 qīnqiè |
| हिन्दी | मित्रत्व mitratva |
| Português | cordialidade, amizade |
| Français | gentillesse, cordialité |
| Deutsch | Freundlichkeit |
| Ελληνικά | φιλικότητα filikótita |
| Română | amabilitate, prietenie, atitudine prietenoasă |
| Русский | дружелю́бие druželjúbije |
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title = {friendliness},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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