friendliness
noun/ˈfɹɛndlinəs/
Etymology From Middle English freendlynesse, frendlynes, equivalent to friendly + -ness.
1
Usually 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 moment that he had gone too far, and killed a willing horse; his face fell; I am sure he would have refunded if he could only have thought of a decent pretext.1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Down the Oise: To Moy”, in An Inland Voyage, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, page 141:
- To foreigners we often seem guileless and overchatty, an impression which is dispersed when they find that much of our friendliness is just the ebullition of the moment and does not carry with it any permanence of devotion.1923 February 11, Mme. X. [pseudonym], “News of Chicago Society: Now That War’s Over, On with Full Dress, Men”, in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, final edition, volume LXXXII, number 6, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, part 7, page 5, columns 6–7:
- Synonyms
- affability, amiability, amicability, approachability, bonhomie, cordiality, friendliness, geniality, pleasantness
- Antonyms
- hostility, unfriendliness
- Derived terms
- business-friendliness, guestfriendliness, overfriendliness
- Coordinate terms
- good-heartedness, good-naturedness, kindness