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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Liebenswürdigkeit

Pronunciation / Transliteration: liebenswuerdigkeit

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Amability/ˌæm.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #14500 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Ihre Liebenswürdigkeit wurde von allen sehr geschätzt."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The quality of being friendly, pleasant, and easy to approach or talk to.

    "Her natural amability immediately put the nervous clients at ease during the negotiation."
  2. 2

    A lovable or endearing quality of character.

    "Despite his eccentric habits, his general amability endeared him to everyone in the neighborhood."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin amabilitas, stemming from the adjective amabilis ('lovable, pleasing'), which originates from the verb amare ('to love'). Entering Middle English via Old French in the 15th century, the term evolved from denoting general lovableness to specifically signifying a friendly, amiable disposition in social interactions.

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