COMPANIONABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does companionableness mean? 

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

1. suitability to be a companion

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPANIONABLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suitability to be a companion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

companionability; companionableness

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

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

Derivation:

companionable (suggestive of companionship)

 Context examples 

They were three days on their journey, and Marianne's behaviour as they travelled was a happy specimen of what future complaisance and companionableness to Mrs. Jennings might be expected to be.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She knew that at times she must be missed; and could not think, without pain, of Emma's losing a single pleasure, or suffering an hour's ennui, from the want of her companionableness: but dear Emma was of no feeble character; she was more equal to her situation than most girls would have been, and had sense, and energy, and spirits that might be hoped would bear her well and happily through its little difficulties and privations.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)