companionability

English

Noun

companionability (plural companionabilities)

1. The state of being companionable, suitability for companionship.
   • 1988 April 15, Laura Molzahn, “Labor Movement”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 1921, Charles A. Murdock, A Backward Glance at Eighty‎^[2]:

     With strong unconventionality and a somewhat abrupt manner, he was genial and kindly in his feelings, with warm affections and great companionability.

   • 1898, James Fullarton Muirhead, The Land of Contrasts‎^[3]:

     He 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.

See also

• compatibility
• Thesaurus:friendly
• Thesaurus:kindly
• Thesaurus:polite
• Thesaurus:sociable