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personableness en · NOUN

Etymology

From personable + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being personable.
    • Osborn's personableness was not of a kind attractive to the unbiassed male observer. 1901, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst:
    • His charm and personableness had contributed greatly to the magic of monarchy. 2014, Anne Edwards, Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, page 383:
    • […] I know no other set of men but what lose something of their personableness when they cease to be quite young. 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey:

Synonyms

personability