geniality

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality of being warmly cheerful, friendly, and easy to approach

   The doctor's quiet geniality soon put the anxious family at ease.

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.

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