cordiality

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The quality of being cordial.

   Upon my entrance, Usher rose from a sofa on which he had been lying at full length, and greeted me with a vivacious warmth which had much in it, I at first thought, of an overdone cordiality—of the constrained effort of the ennuyé man of the world.

2. 2
   noun

   A friendly utterance.

   To exchange cordialities with people.

3. 3
   noun

   a cordial disposition

From cordial + -ity.

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