agreeability
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From agreeable (from Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable) by analogy with -ability.[1] 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.[1][2]
Noun
[edit]agreeability (usually uncountable, plural agreeabilities)
- (uncountable) The property of being agreeable; pleasantness. [from 18th c.]
- 1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 95:
- [S]he was all good humour, spirits, sense and agreeability. Surely I may make words, when at a loss, if Dr Johnson does.
- (countable) The result, product, or an instance of being agreeable.
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “agreeability, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “agrẹ̄ābletẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
