guestfriendliness
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Etymology edit
From a compound of guest + friendliness, or a derivative of guestfriendly.
Noun edit
guestfriendliness (uncountable)
- (nonce word) hospitality
- 1931, James Joyce, “To Mrs Herbert Gorman Who Complained That Her Visitors Kept Late Hours”, in The Complete Poetry of James Joyce, published 2016:
- Guestfriendliness to callers Is your surest thief of time They're so much at holmes when with you They don't dream of gugging heim.