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friendlinesses

friendlinesses is the plural of friendliness.

Meaning of friendliness

Noun

friendliness (usually uncountable, plural friendlinesses)

  1. (usually) The quality of being friendly.
    • Finding us easy in our ways, he […] told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw in a...1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Down the Oise: To Moy”, in An Inland Voyage, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, page 141

Questions about friendlinesses

What is friendlinesses the plural of?
Friendlinesses is the plural of friendliness.

Words near friendlinesses in the dictionary

  1. friendlihead
  2. friendlihood
  3. friendlike
  4. friendlily
  5. friendliness
  6. friendlinesses
  7. friendling
  8. friendlings
  9. friendlist
  10. friendlists
  11. friendly

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