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Pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions
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agreeableness
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions; "a well trained staff saw to the agreeableness of our accommodations"; "he discovered the amenities of reading at an early age" [syn: amenity ] [ant: disagreeableness ] a temperamental disposition to ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agreeableness \A*gree"a*ble*ness\, n. The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. --Pope. The quality of being agreeable ...
Wikipedia
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Agreeableness is a personality trait manifesting itself in individual behavioral characteristics that are perceived as kind, sympathetic, cooperative, warm and considerate. In contemporary personality psychology , agreeableness is one of the five major ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. 2 (context uncountable English) The quality of being agreeable or suitable; suitableness or ...
Usage examples of agreeableness.
It tests you for the five major domains of personality: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
It is admitted that if one goes into a new place he estimates the agreeableness of it according to the number of people it contains with whom it is a pleasure to converse, who have either the ability to talk well or the intelligence to listen appreciatingly even if deceivingly, whose society has the beguiling charm that makes even natural scenery satisfactory.
Yet, I must confess, that this enumeration puts the matter in so strong a light, that I cannot, at PRESENT, be more assured of any truth, which I learn from reasoning and argument, than that personal merit consists entirely in the usefulness or agreeableness of qualities to the person himself possessed of them, or to others, who have any intercourse with him.
But next to an interesting person in social value, is an agreeable one, and it would add vastly to the agreeableness of life if our widely spread provinces were not so self-centred in their notion that their own way is the best, to the degree that they criticise any deviation from it as an eccentricity.
We are not now considering the matter of the agreeableness of one society or another, whether life is on the whole pleasanter in certain conditions at the North or at the South, whether there is not a charm sometimes in isolation and even in provincialism.
Never, too, had I been more impressed with the suavity, the agreeableness, the general charm of his manner.
We have entered into a contract of mutual agreeableness for the space of an evening, and all our agreeableness belongs solely to each other for that time.
Much natural agreeableness and acuteness are likewise necessary in a Cynic (otherwise he becomes a mere driveller, and nothing else), that he may be able to give an answer readily and pertinently upon every occasion.
By the side of the instructive and piquant snubbings she received from Knight, Stephen’s general agreeableness seemed watery.