friendliness

English

Etymology

From friendly ‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɛndlinəs/
• Hyphenation: friend‧li‧ness

Noun

friendliness (usually uncountable, plural friendlinesses)

1. The quality of being friendly.

   Synonyms: affability, amicability, bonhomie, geniality, pleasantness

   Antonyms: hostility, unfriendliness

   • 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Down the Oise: To Moy”, in An Inland Voyage, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, page 141:

     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.

Coordinate terms

• good-heartedness
• good-naturedness
• kindness
• See also Thesaurus:affectionate

Translations

the quality of being friendly

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 友好 (zh) (yǒuhǎo), 親切／亲切 (zh) (qīnqiè)

• Danish: venlighed (da) c
• Dutch: vriendelijkheid (nl) f
• Finnish: ystävällisyys (fi)
• French: gentillesse (fr) f, cordialité (fr) f
• German: Freundlichkeit (de) f
• Greek: φιλικότητα (el) f (filikótita)
• Hungarian: barátságosság (hu)
• Icelandic: vingjarnleiki m
• Irish: cairdiúlacht f
• Japanese: 友好 (ja) (ゆうこう, yūkō), 親切 (ja) (しんせつ, shinsetsu)
• Korean: 우호 (uho), 우정 (ko) (ujeong)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Fründlichkeit f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vennlighet (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: venlegheit f, vennlegheit f, vennligheit f

• Portuguese: cordialidade (pt) f, amizade (pt) f
• Romanian: amabilitate (ro) f, prietenie (ro) f, atitudine prietenoasă f
• Russian: дружелю́бие (ru) n (druželjúbije)
• Scottish Gaelic: càirdeas m
• Spanish: amigabilidad (es) f
• Volapük: flenöf (vo)
• Welsh: cyfeillgarwch (cy) m