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cordialities

cordialities is the plural of cordiality.

Meaning of cordiality

Noun

cordiality (countable and uncountable, plural cordialities)

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being cordial.
    • Upon my entrance, Usher rose from a sofa on which he had been lying at full length, and greeted me with a vivacious warmth which had much in it, I at first thought, of an overdone cordiality—of the constrained effort of the ennuyé man of the world.1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
  2. (countable) A friendly utterance.
    • to exchange cordialities with people

Questions about cordialities

What is cordialities the plural of?
Cordialities is the plural of cordiality.

Words near cordialities in the dictionary

  1. cordial
  2. cordialise
  3. cordialised
  4. cordialises
  5. cordialising
  6. cordialities
  7. cordiality
  8. cordialize
  9. cordialized
  10. cordializes
  11. cordializing

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