affableness

Other forms of affableness

plural

affablenesses·

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 affableness

What does affableness mean?

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

How many syllables are in affableness?

affableness has 4 syllables: af-fa-ble-ness. The stress falls on "fa".

What is another word for affableness?

Close synonyms include affability, 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 affableness a common word?

affableness 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.