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Definitions: Amiability |
AmiabilityNoun1. A cheerful and agreeable mood. 2. A disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "amiability" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Synonyms: AmiabilitySynonyms: affability (n), affableness (n), amiableness (n), bonhomie (n), geniality (n), good humor (n), good humour (n), good temper (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: ill humor (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Benevolence | Good nature, good feeling, good wishes; kindness, kindliness; Adjective: loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy: goodness of heart, warmth of heart; bonhomie; kind-heartedness; amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness; love; friendship. |
Courtesy | Noun: courtesy; respect; good manners, good behavior, good breeding; manners; politeness; Adjective: bienseance, urbanity, comity, gentility, breeding, polish, presence; civility, civilization; amenity, suavity; good temper, good humor; amiability, easy temper, complacency, soft tongue, mansuetude; condescension; (humility); affability, complaisance, pr_venance, amability, gallantry; pink of politeness, pink of courtesy. |
Pain | Attraction; (motive); attractiveness, attractability; invitingness; Adjective: harm, fascination, enchantment, witchery, seduction, winning ways, amenity, amiability; winsomeness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Amiability |
| Specialty definitions using "amiability": Cherries ♦ Drum. (references) |
| "Amiability" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amiability" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "amiability"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | miqësi (amicability, amity, comradeship, fellowship, fraternity, friendship, good fellowship, goodness, unity), dashamirësi (affability, beneficence, benevolence, geniality, goodwill, kindness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لطف (affableness, allay, alleviate, amenity, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, benignity, civility, courtesy, ease, extenuate, friendliness, geniality, gentleness, kindness, lighten, mildness, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, politeness, qualify, quell, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, softness, soothe, suavity, sweeten, temper, tone down, urbanity), ود (like), أنس (personify, tame), ظرافة (elegance, humor, humour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обичливост, любезност (affability, amenity, civility, decency, douceur, fairness, goodness, kindness, mellowness, pleasantness, politeness), приветливост (affability, suavity, sweetness), дружелюбност. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přívìtivost (affability, friendliness, pleasantness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مهربانی (Affability, Blithe, Kindness), خوش مشربی , شیرینی (Bonbon, Confection, Confetti, Cookie, Cooky, Goody, Pastry, Sugar), دلپذیری (Nicety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rakastettavuus (lovableness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | amabilité (amicability), gentillesse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Liebenswürdigkeit (amenity, gentleness, ingratiation, kindliness, kindness, lovableness, politeness, sweetness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φιλοφροσύνη (amenity, friendliness), ερασμιότητα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | י"י"ותיות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szeretetreméltóság (loveliness, suavity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | keramahan (amenity, aminess). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | amabilit (geniality, lovability, niceness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 人好き (attractiveness, charm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひとずき (attractiveness, charm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | graihys, graihoilys (amiableness, loveliness), graiharaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amiabilityay amabilidade (kindliness, kindness, loveliness). (various references) amabilitate (affability, amability, amiableness, blandness, civility, courteousness, courtesy, Favor, favour, gentleness, kindness, obligingness, politeness, willingness), afabilitate (affability), omenie (honor, honour, humanity, sympathy), bunãvoinţã (amicableness, benevolence, charity, clemency, condescension, friendliness, good will, goodwill, grace, graciousness, humanity, kindness, patronage, readiness, stoop, willingness), bunã dispoziţie (amenity, buoyancy, cheerfulness, elation, gaiety, geniality, good humor, good humour, snap, spirit). (various references) дружелюбие (amiableness, amicability, amicableness, amity, bonhomie, friendliness, friendship). (various references) ljubaznost (affability, amicability, boon, cordiality, geniality, graciousness, kindliness, kindness, niceness, suavity), društvenost (gregariousness, sociability, sociality). (various references) amabilidad (amenity, amicability, bonhomie, decency, friendliness, gentleness, graciousness, kindness, niceness, pleasantness, sympathy). (various references) älskvärdhet (affability, endearment, kindness, suavity). (various references) tatlılık (affability, agreeableness, amenity, bonhomie, lusciousness, mellowness, smoothness, softness, suavity, sweet, sweetness), sevimlilik (charm, cuteness, geniality, loveliness, niceness, suavity, sweetness), cana yakınlık (congeniality, graciousness). (various references) люб'язність (affability, amenity, civility, complaisance, compliment, courtesy, obligingness), привітність (affability, cordiality, courtesy, geniality, hospitality, neighborliness, neighbourliness), привабливість (affinity, appeal, appealingness, attraction, attractiveness, beauty, buxomness, charm, grace, loveliness, magnetism, pull, relish), дружелюбність (amicability, amity, friendliness, friendship, neighborliness, neighbourliness), доброзичливість (benevolence, candor, candour, charity, good-liking, goodwill), добродушність (buxomness, mellowness). (various references) tính ho nhã tính dễ thương (amiableness), tính đáng yêu (adorability, adorableness, amiableness, likability, likableness, lovability, lovableness), sự tốt bụng tính nhã nhặn (amiableness), sự tử tế (amiableness, kindness). (various references) hygarwch, hawddgarwch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Amiability" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fanciability, imitability, mirabili. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "amiability" (pronounced ā'mēubi"lutē) |
| 9 | -m ē u b i" l u t ē | permeability. |
| 8 | -ē u b i" l u t ē | malleability, variability. |
| 7 | -u b i" l u t ē | ability, acceptability, accessibility, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, fallibility, feasibility, flammability, flexibility, gullibility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incompatibility, indestructibility, inevitability, infallibility, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, palatability, plausibility, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, sensibility, stability, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, viability, visibility, vulnerability. |
| 6 | -b i" l u t ē | immobility, mobility, nobility. |
| 5 | -i" l u t ē | agility, civility, docility, ductility, facility, fertility, fragility, futility, gentility, hostility, humility, incivility, infertility, motility, nonutility, senility, sterility, tranquility, utility, versatility, virility, volatility. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | abnormality, accountability, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, credulity, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, equality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, fidelity, finality, formality, frivolity, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, incredulity, individuality, inequality, infidelity, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, polity, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, quality, rationality, reality, seasonality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-i-i-i-l-m-t-y" | |
-3 letters: ability, amiably, militia. | |
-4 letters: baalim, tibial, timbal, tymbal. | |
-5 letters: aalii, alibi, aliya, ambit, amity, balmy, biali, bialy, blimy, iambi, labia, laity, lamby, lamia, limba, limbi, limby, limit, litai, malty, milia, milty, tabla, tamal, tibia. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-i-i-i-l-m-t-y" | |
+1 letter: amicability, mailability. | |
+2 letters: admirability. | |
+3 letters: impalpability, impassability, implacability, machinability. | |
+4 letters: assimilability, inflammability, machineability, manipulability. | |
+5 letters: incomparability, maintainability, marriageability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 69 61 62 69 6C 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- .. .- -... .. .-.. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01101001 01100001 01100010 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m i a b i l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 0069 0061 0062 0069 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35797567687578758691 |
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