personableness

English

Etymology

personable +‎ -ness

Noun

personableness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being personable.
   • 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey:

     […] I know no other set of men but what lose something of their personableness when they cease to be quite young.

   • 1901, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst:

     Osborn's personableness was not of a kind attractive to the unbiassed male observer.

   • 2014, Anne Edwards, Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor‎^[1], page 383:

     His charm and personableness had contributed greatly to the magic of monarchy.

Synonyms

• personability