affability

Other forms of affability

plural

affabilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about affability

What does affability mean?

affability means "a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to)".

How many syllables are in affability?

affability has 5 syllables and divides as af-fa-bi-li-ty under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for affability?

Close synonyms include affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is affability a common word?

affability is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.