English Explanatory Dictionary

agreeability

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The property of being agreeable; pleasantness.
  2. The result, product, or an instance of being agreeable.

Word forms

agreeability agreeabilities

Etymology

From agreeable (from Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable) by analogy with -ability. 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.

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