AGREEABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agreeableness mean? 

• AGREEABLENESS (noun)
  The noun AGREEABLENESS has 2 senses:

1. pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions

2. a temperamental disposition to be agreeable

  Familiarity information: AGREEABLENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGREEABLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

agreeableness; amenity

Context example:

he discovered the amenities of reading at an early age

Hypernyms ("agreeableness" is a kind of...):

pleasantness; sweetness (the quality of giving pleasure)

Antonym:

disagreeableness (the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant)

Derivation:

agreeable (conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A temperamental disposition to be agreeable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

agreeability; agreeableness

Hypernyms ("agreeableness" is a kind of...):

disposition; temperament (your usual mood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agreeableness"):

complaisance; compliance; compliancy; deference; obligingness (a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others)

affirmativeness (the agreeable quality of one who assents)

Antonym:

disagreeableness (an ill-tempered and offensive disposition)

Derivation:

agreeable (prepared to agree or consent)

 Context examples 

For Fanny, somewhat more was related than the accidental agreeableness of the parties he had been in.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But in dancing, their duties are exactly changed; the agreeableness, the compliance are expected from him, while she furnishes the fan and the lavender water.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Findings show that people's eye movements reveal whether they are sociable, conscientious or curious, with the algorithm software reliably recognizing four of the Big Five personality traits: neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.

(Eyes Can Indicate Personality Type, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Immediately they crossed the road and came forward to her; and the agreeableness of yesterday's engagement seemed to give fresh pleasure to the present meeting.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

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.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Here is a young man wishing to pay his addresses to you, with everything to recommend him: not merely situation in life, fortune, and character, but with more than common agreeableness, with address and conversation pleasing to everybody.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Miss Nash had told her all this, and had talked a great deal more about Mr. Elton; and said, looking so very significantly at her, that she did not pretend to understand what his business might be, but she only knew that any woman whom Mr. Elton could prefer, she should think the luckiest woman in the world; for, beyond a doubt, Mr. Elton had not his equal for beauty or agreeableness.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Tom Bertram must have been thought pleasant, indeed, at any rate; he was the sort of young man to be generally liked, his agreeableness was of the kind to be oftener found agreeable than some endowments of a higher stamp, for he had easy manners, excellent spirits, a large acquaintance, and a great deal to say; and the reversion of Mansfield Park, and a baronetcy, did no harm to all this.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)