Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being approachable; affability; friendliness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.
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- noun The state or quality of being
approachable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The King was so pleased with the place that he stayed eleven weeks, and by his unaffected buorgeois manner and approachableness quickly gained the enthusiastic loyalty of his Dorset subjects.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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Roosevelt's humor, his charm, his intensity, his approachableness, attracted even those who rejected his politics and his party.
Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919
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On the contrary it had been fanned into fresh flame by the novel charm of her sweet approachableness.
An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada A. Ethelwyn Wetherald 1898
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When, at last, these very remarkable and well-informed people drove away, and he watched their buggy disappearing down the pass, he found himself possessed of a new and inspiring faith in the approachableness of the great world he was about to confront.
Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book Anna Fuller 1884
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Bernard Longueville had been surprised at first at what he would have called Miss Vivian's approachableness -- at the frequency with which he encountered opportunities for sitting near her and entering into conversation.
Confidence 1879
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“He is a man of the most eminent civility and approachableness.
Dead Souls 1842
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