affability

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality of being friendly, approachable, and easy to talk to

   Her calm affability put the nervous visitors at ease.

From Middle French affabilité and Latin affābilitās, from affābilis ("approachable, courteous"), based on affārī ("to speak to"): ad- ("to") + fārī ("to speak"). The literal idea is of a person who can be spoken to easily.

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