Friendliness Meaning
/ˈfɹɛndlinəs/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe quality of being friendly.
Sentence Examples
What strikes me here is people's friendliness.
He was deceived by her apparent friendliness.
Don't interpret a woman's friendliness as flirting. Women don't like that.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The dog's ____ made the children feel safe and happy.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The waiter's warmth and ____ made our dining experience at the small restaurant even more enjoyable.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English freendlynesse, frendlynes, equivalent to friendly + -ness.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The dog's ____ made the children feel safe and happy.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The waiter's warmth and ____ made our dining experience at the small restaurant even more enjoyable.