friendliness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The quality of being friendly.

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   a friendly disposition

3. 3
   noun

   a feeling of liking for another person

Etymology

From Middle English freendlynesse, frendlynes, equivalent to friendly + -ness.