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A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
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obligingness
Word definitions for obligingness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
obliging \o*bli"ging\ ([-o]*bl[imac]"j[i^]ng), a. Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind. Mons. Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them. --Addison. Syn: ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being obliging; the tendency to cater for the desires of others.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others [syn: complaisance , compliance , compliancy , deference ]
Usage examples of obligingness.
Outside Vealos we had the pleasure of waving a last farewell to a man to whom the expedition will always owe a debt of gratitude, Captain Christian Blom, Superintendent of the dockyard, who had supervised the extensive repairs to the Fram with unrelaxing interest and obligingness.