Definition of "affableness" [af•fa•ble•ness]

• The state or quality of being affable. (noun)

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• "Others, on the contrary, take their greatest delight, when they know how, with affableness to please their wives humour, and with plausible words can admonish them what is best and fittest to be done; and rather to extoll those graces which are found in them, than to reprove their deficiencies: According to the instructions of the prudent"
• "He was feeling much happier and some of the vague affableness of his youth returned to him."
• "The captain received her as graciously as possible, although he knew at the first glance that his entire stock of affableness could not dispel the threatening clouds."