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affability
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affability
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amiability |
| Synonyms: | agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiableness, bonhomie, congeniality, cordiality, cordialness, friendliness, geniality, good-naturedness, graciousness, niceness, pleasantness, sociability, sociableness, warmth |
| Main Entry: | cordiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendliness, sociability |
| Synonyms: | affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, approbation, approval, earnestness, enjoyableness, favor, geniality, gratefulness, heartiness, mutuality, pleasantness, reciprocity, responsiveness, sincerity, sweetness and light, sympathy, understanding, warmth, wholeheartedness |
| Antonyms: | aloofness, coolness, hostility, ill will, indifference, unfriendlines, unsociability |
| Main Entry: | courtesy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good manners |
| Synonyms: | address, affability, amenities, amiability, attentiveness, ceremony, chivalry, civility, comity, complaisance, consideration, cordiality, courteousness, courtliness, cultivation, culture, deference, elegance, familiarity, favor, friendliness, gallantness, gallantry, generosity, geniality, gentleness, good behavior, good breeding, graciousness, indulgence, kindness, polish, politeness, refinement, respect, reverence, solicitude, suavity, sympathy, tact, thoughtfulness, urbanity |
| Antonyms: | bad manners, discourtesy, impoliteness, pompousness, rudeness, unmannerliness |
| Main Entry: | ease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facility, freedom |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, affability, aplomb, breeze, child's play, cinch, cleverness, composure, dexterity, dispatch, duck soup, easygoingness, efficiency, effortlessness, expertise, expertness, familiarity, flexibility, fluency, informality, insouciance, knack, liberty, naturalness, nonchalance, poise, pushover, quickness, readiness, relaxedness, setup, simplicity, skillfulness, smooth sailing, smoothness, snap, unaffectedness, unconstraint, unreservedness |
| Antonyms: | difficulty, effort, inhibition, perplexity, restriction |
| Main Entry: | fellowship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sociability, association |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, affability, alliance, amity, camaraderie, club, communion, companionability, companionship, company, comradeship, conviviality, familiarity, friendliness, guild, intimacy, kindliness, league, order, society, sodality, togetherness |
| Main Entry: | flexibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elasticity, adaptability |
| Synonyms: | adjustability, affability, complaisance, compliance, docility, extensibility, flaccidity, flexibleness, give, limberness, litheness, plasticity, pliability, pliancy, resilience, springiness, suppleness, tensility, tractability |
| Antonyms: | constraint, inelasticity, inflexibility, resistance |
| Main Entry: | friendliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | companionability |
| Synonyms: | affability, amiability, amity, benevolence, camaraderie, comity, comradery, congeniality, conviviality, cordiality, friendship, geniality, goodwill, kindliness, kindness, neighborliness, open arms, sociability, warmth |
| Antonyms: | aloofness, coldness, incompatibility |
| Main Entry: | geniality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme niceness |
| Synonyms: | affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, cheerfulness, cheeriness, congenialness, conviviality, cordiality, enjoyableness, friendliness, gladness, good cheer, good nature, gratefulness, happiness, heartiness, jollity, joviality, joy, joyousness, kindliness, kindness, mirth, pleasance, pleasantness, sunniness, sweetness and light, warmheartedness, warmth |
| Antonyms: | aloofness, coldness, coolness, irritation, moodiness, unfriendliness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | hospitality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | neighborliness |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, affability, amiability, cheer, companionship, comradeship, consideration, conviviality, cordiality, entertainment, friendliness, generosity, geniality, good cheer, heartiness, hospitableness, obligingness, reception, sociability, warmth, welcome |
| Antonyms: | hostility, inhospitality, unfriendliness, unneighborliness, unsociableness |
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