geniality
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English
Etymology
From Latin geniālitās, and perhaps also partly formed within English as genial + -ity.[1]
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ælɪti
Noun
geniality (countable and uncountable, plural genialities)
- The quality of being genial; friendly cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
- 1878, Thomas Hardy, Return of the Native Chapter 3:
- Sometimes this throat uttered Yes, sometimes it uttered No; sometimes it made inquiries about a time worn denizen of the place. Once it surprised her notions by remarking upon the friendliness and geniality written in the faces of the hills around.
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days:
- […] and yet there was such a wilful geniality about him, such a strenuous air of being off duty and forgetting his rank, that no one was ever quite at ease in his presence.
References
- ^ “geniality, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 2023-09-19.
