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US
/ˈfɹɛndɫinɪs, ˈfɹɛnɫinɪs/
]
[ UK /fɹˈɛndlinəs/ ]
[ UK /fɹˈɛndlinəs/ ]
NOUN
- a feeling of liking for another person; enjoyment in their company
- a friendly disposition
How To Use friendliness In A Sentence
- The 25,000 residents are culturally mixed and renowned for their friendliness.
- Wherefore, upon all these accounts, as well as for all the reasons before mentioned, youth stands in need of good government to manage it in the reading of poetry, that being free from all prejudicate opinions, and rather instructed beforehand in conformity thereunto, it may with more calmness, friendliness, and familiarity pass from thence to the study of philosophy. Essays and Miscellanies
- Adding to the rosiness of the outside world is an unexpected rise in the friendliness of the vet whom I was apprehensive about seeing earlier in the week.
- There was quiet friendliness deep in his calm, desireless eyes. Son of Power
- Did he outsit the maids and men around his hearth and watch the dying fire with no other companions than his sleeping dogs, fancy placed a scar-let-cloaked figure on the cushion at his feet and raised at his knee a face of sweetest friendliness, whose flower-blue eyes brightened or gloomed in response to his lightest mood ... The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest
- But not in America, where friendliness is a prized stereotype. Amtrak adventures
- The public conveniences were visited by independent judges who took into account factors such as cleanliness, friendliness and accessibility.
- Wishing you glad days filled with friendliness, bright days filled with cheer, warm days filled with happiness to last throughout the year! Have a wonderful brithday!
- I can't stand the pace, I suppose, and the competi-tiveness, and the unfriendliness.
- Near the middle and off to the side, staring up with an expression of friendliness, excitement, and, above all, hope. Freefall