Meaning of geniality | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being genial; friendly cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“[…] 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.”

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