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Word Meanings - AFFABILITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior. Affability is of a wonderful efficacy or power in procuring love. Elyot

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  • POLITENESS
    1. High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. Evelyn. 2. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions. Syn. -- Courtesy; good breeding; refinement; urbanity;
  • BLANDNESS
    The state or quality of being bland.
  • PLEASANTNESS
    The state or quality of being pleasant.
  • URBANITY
    1. The quality or state of being urbane; civility or courtesy of manners; politeness; refinement. The marquis did the honors of his house with the urbanity of his country. W. Irving. 2. Polite wit; facetiousness. Dryden. Raillery in the sauce
  • CIVILITY
    1. The state of society in which the relations and duties of a citizen are recognized and obeyed; a state of civilization. Monarchies have risen from barbarrism to civility, and fallen again to ruin. Sir J. Davies. The gradual depature
  • COMITY
    Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly equals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States. Comity of nations , the courtesy by which nations recognize within their own territory, or in their courts,
  • AFFABILITY
    The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior. Affability is of a wonderful efficacy or power in procuring love. Elyot
  • COURTESY
    corteisie, courtesie, OF. curteisie, cortoisie, OF. curteisie, 1. Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness. And trust thy honest-offered courtesy, With oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry walls And courts
  • GRACIOUSNESS
    Quality of being gracious.
  • UNCIVILITY
    Incivility.
  • INCIVILITY
    1. The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness. Shak. Tillotson. 2. Any act of rudeness or ill breeding. Uncomely jests, loud talking and jeering, which, in civil account, are called indecencies and
  • DISCOURTESY
    Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert.
  • INCOMITY
    Want of comity; incivility; rudeness.
  • INURBANITY
    Want of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness. Bp. Hall.
  • INAFFABILITY
    Want of affability or sociability; reticence.

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