"affability" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: affabilities [plural]
Etymology: From affable + -ity. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|affable|ity}} affable + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} affability (countable and uncountable, plural affabilities)
  1. The state or quality of being affable, friendly, or approachable. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (state or quality of being affable): afabilitat [feminine] (Catalan), afableco (Esperanto), affabilité [feminine] (French), liant [masculine] (French), afabilidade [feminine] (Galician), Freundlichkeit [feminine] (German), Umgänglichkeit [feminine] (German), Leutseligkeit [feminine] (German), 優しさ (yasashisa) (Japanese), affabilitās [feminine] (Latin), keramahan (Malay), afabilidade [feminine] (Portuguese), afabilitate [feminine] (Romanian), cordialitate (Romanian), afabilidad [feminine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "state or quality of being affable",
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      "sense": "state or quality of being affable",
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      "word": "afabilidade"
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