agreeability

The property of being agreeable; pleasantness.

Noun

  1. The property of being agreeable; pleasantness.
    • [S]he was all good humour, spirits, sense and agreeability. Surely I may make words, when at a loss, if Dr Johnson does. - 1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 95:
  2. The result, product, or an instance of being agreeable.

Origin

From agreeable (from Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable) by analogy with -ability. By surface analysis, agree + -ability. Compare the only attestation before the 18th century (by Geoffrey Chaucer), Middle English aggreablete, agreablete (“favorable disposition, tolerance”), from Middle French agréableté.

Forms

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