Meanings
plural companionabilities
- The state of being companionable, suitability for companionship.
With strong unconventionality and a somewhat abrupt manner, he was genial and kindly in his feelings, with warm affections and great companionability.
1921, Charles A. Murdock, A Backward Glance at Eighty2 more examples
The whole effort was greater than the sum of the individual parts, and there was a nice fellow feeling between these people, an unforced companionability.
1988 April 15, Laura Molzahn, “Labor Movement”, in Chicago ReaderHe will find that her frank and charming companionability is as far removed from masculinity as from coarseness; that the points in which she differs from the European lady do not bring her nearer either to a man on the one hand, or to a common woman on the other.
1898, James Fullarton Muirhead, The Land of Contrasts
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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