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geniality

geniality noun: the quality of being genial; friendly cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.

Noun

geniality (countable and uncountable, plural genialities)

  1. The quality of being genial; friendly cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
    • Sometimes this throat uttered Yes, sometimes it uttered No; sometimes it made inquiries about a time worn denizen of the place. Once it surprised her notions by remarking upon the friendliness and geniality written in the faces of the hills around.1878, Thomas Hardy, Return of the Native Chapter 3
    • […] and yet there was such a wilful geniality about him, such a strenuous air of being off duty and forgetting his rank, that no one was ever quite at ease in his presence.1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days

geniality meaning in Malayalam

geniality in Malayalam

രസിത്വം, സ്വാഭാവികത്വം, ഉല്ലാസം, പ്രസാദം, രമ്യത

Forms of geniality

pluralgenialities

Origin of geniality

From Latin geniālitās, and perhaps also partly formed within English as genial + -ity.

Words formed from geniality

Words that rhyme with geniality

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Questions about geniality

What does geniality mean?
Geniality means the quality of being genial; friendly cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
What is geniality in Malayalam?
Geniality in Malayalam is രസിത്വം, സ്വാഭാവികത്വം, ഉല്ലാസം. See Geniality meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is geniality?
Geniality is a noun.
What is the plural of geniality?
The plural of geniality is genialities.

Words near geniality in the dictionary

  1. genialise
  2. genialised
  3. genialises
  4. genialising
  5. genialities
  6. geniality
  7. genialize
  8. genialized
  9. genializes
  10. genializing
  11. genially

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Adapted from Wiktionary: geniality (page history and authors); geniality (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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