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noun

Agreeableness n.

The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. "That author... has an agreeableness that charms us."

The quality of being agreeable or suitable; suitableness or conformity; consistency. "The agreeableness of virtuous actions to human nature."

Resemblance; concordance; harmony; with to or between. (Obs.) "The agreeableness between man and the other parts of the universe."

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Etymology of 'Agreeableness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... I think, upsets the worker, and makes him bilious; wine will not cure this, nor will abstaining from wine prevent it. But, in general, wine used in moderation seems to add to the agreeableness of life—for adults, at any rate; and whatever adds to the agreeableness of life adds to its resources ...

— Study and Stimulants • A. Arthur Reade

... Haus-teufel, an angel of courtesy to every woman but herself; to see him in society all smiles and good stories, the most amiable and self-restraining of men; perhaps to be complimented on his agreeableness: and to know all the while that he is penning up all the accumulated ill-temper of the day, to let it out on her when they get home; perhaps in the very carriage as soon as it leaves the door. Hypocrites that you are, some of you ...

— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley

... highest, or, second, by using the words more and most, as splendid, more splendid, most splendid. The question which of the two methods should be used is not always easy to decide. It depends somewhat on usage and on euphony or agreeableness ...

— Word Study and English Grammar - A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses • Frederick W. Hamilton

... hearts toward her; it will awaken tender and agreeable feelings in her behalf; it will disarm the stranger of the peculiar prejudices he often has toward those he knows not; it will pave the way to esteem; it will weave the links to friendship's chain; it will throw an air of agreeableness into the manners of all who approach her. All this her Beauty will do for her before she puts forth a single effort of her own to win the esteem and love of her fellows. All this is the direct, immediate, and agreeable result of a gift from her Father in heaven. How, than, should she feel ...

— Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women • George Sumner Weaver

... an action does not lie in the effect expected from it, nor in any principle of action which requires to borrow its motive from this expected effeet. For all these effects— agreeableness of one's condition, and even the promotion of the happiness of others—could have been also brought about by other causes, so that for this there would have been no need of the will of a rational being; whereas it ...

— Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various

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