companionability
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
companionability (plural companionabilities)
- The state of being companionable, suitability for companionship.
- 1988 April 15, Laura Molzahn, “Labor Movement”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- The whole effort was greater than the sum of the individual parts, and there was a nice fellow feeling between these people, an unforced companionability.
- 1921, Charles A. Murdock, A Backward Glance at Eighty[2]:
- With strong unconventionality and a somewhat abrupt manner, he was genial and kindly in his feelings, with warm affections and great companionability.
- 1898, James Fullarton Muirhead, The Land of Contrasts[3]:
- He will find that her frank and charming companionability is as far removed from masculinity as from coarseness; that the points in which she differs from the European lady do not bring her nearer either to a man on the one hand, or to a common woman on the other.