Word Meanings - FRIENDLINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRIENDLINESS)

• amity
• Friendliness
• peace
• sociableness
• good will
• Companionship
• Converse
• acquaintance
• familiarity
• intimacy
• friendliness
• association

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FRIENDLINESS)

• Keep silent

Related words: (words related to FRIENDLINESS)

• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• ASSOCIATION
  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
• ACQUAINTANCE
  1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
• ASSOCIATIONIST
  One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
• INTIMACY
  The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship. Syn. -- Acquaintance; familiarity; fellowship; friendship. See Acquaintance.
• SOCIABLENESS
  The quality of being sociable.
• ASSOCIATIONISM
  The doctrine or theory held by associationists.
• SILENTIARY
  One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secre
• PEACEMAKER
  One who makes peace by reconciling parties that are at variance. Matt. v. 9. --Peace"mak`ing, n.
• CONVERSELY
  In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally. J. S. Mill.
• FAMILIARITY
  1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity. 2. Anything said or done by one person to another
• CONVERSE
  to be turned, to live, remain, fr. versare to turn often, v. intens. 1. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with. To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature. Thomson. Conversing with the world,
• SILENT
  Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable." 5. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. Cause . . . silent, virtueless, and dead. Sir W. Raleigh. Silent partner. See Dormant partner, under Dormant. Syn. -- Mute;
• ASSOCIATIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to association, or to an association. 2. Pertaining to the theory held by the associationists.
• PEACE
  A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose; specifically: Exemption from, or cessation of, war with public enemies. Public quiet, order, and contentment in obedience to law. Exemption from, or subjection
• SILENTIOUS
  Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent.
• SILENTNESS
  State of being silent; silence.
• ACQUAINTANCESHIP
  A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey.
• CONVERSER
  One who engages in conversation.
• INACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance. Good.
• PREACQUAINTANCE
  Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.
• CALAMITY
  1. Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals. Note: The word calamity was first derived from calamus when the corn could not get out of
• YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
  An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which
• UNACQUAINTANCE
  The quality or state of being unacquainted; want of acquaintance; ignorance. He was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity. Sir W. Hamilton.
• NONACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted.
• ASSOCIABLENESS
  Associability.