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