OBLIGINGNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obligingness mean? 

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

1. a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBLIGINGNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

complaisance; compliance; compliancy; deference; obligingness

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

agreeability; agreeableness (a temperamental disposition to be agreeable)

Derivation:

obliging (showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others)

 Context examples 

The harp arrived, and rather added to her beauty, wit, and good-humour; for she played with the greatest obligingness, with an expression and taste which were peculiarly becoming, and there was something clever to be said at the close of every air.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The Miss Bertrams were now fully established among the belles of the neighbourhood; and as they joined to beauty and brilliant acquirements a manner naturally easy, and carefully formed to general civility and obligingness, they possessed its favour as well as its admiration.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)