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the quality of being warmly cheerful, friendly, and easy to approach
The doctor's quiet geniality soon put the anxious family at ease.
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From Latin genialitas and also analyzable in English as genial + -ity. Genial originally meant "festive, life-giving, or pertaining to one's tutelary spirit" before developing the modern sense of warm, cheerful friendliness.