CHUMMINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chumminess mean? 

• CHUMMINESS (noun)
  The noun CHUMMINESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability

  Familiarity information: CHUMMINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHUMMINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

camaraderie; chumminess; comradeliness; comradery; comradeship

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

sociability; sociableness (the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows)

Derivation:

chummy ((used informally) associated on close terms)

chummy ((used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals)