friendliness

friendly +‎ -ness

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɛndlinəs/
• Hyphenation: friend‧li‧ness

friendliness (usually uncountable, plural friendlinesses)

1. The quality of being friendly.

   Synonyms: affability, amicability, bonhomie, geniality, pleasantness

   Antonyms: hostility, unfriendliness

   • 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Down the Oise: To Moy”, in An Inland Voyage, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, page 141:

     Finding us easy in our ways, he […] told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw in a moment that he had gone too far, and killed a willing horse; his face fell; I am sure he would have refunded if he could only have thought of a decent pretext.

• good-heartedness
• good-naturedness
• kindness
• See also Thesaurus:affectionate