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Amiability is the quality of being friendly and easy to like — warmth you can live with, not a single nice act. If someone has amiability, they are pleasant, kind in manner, and not hard to get on with. It is a rather formal, noun. In everyday talk people are more likely to say “she’s so friendly” or “he’s easy to like” than “her amiability.” You will meet it in novels, school essays, and character sketches. It names the trait. It does not mean the person is your close friend, and it is not the same as being merely polite.
和藹可親、親切(指性情上的特質,不是單一次友善的舉動)。
組成amiable + -ability. -ability turns an adjective into a noun meaning “the quality of being ….” It is built from the same word-pieces as amicability, just put together by a different route over time.
同家族的字
- amiablethe adjective this noun is built from
- amiablythe adverb from the same adjective
- amicabilitya piecewise doublet: same pieces, arrived another way
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
amiabilitynoun/eɪ.mi.ʌˈbɪl.ə.ti/
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Friendliness, especially easy approachability owing to a cheerful and pleasant disposition.
- Her warmth and amiability made her popular among colleagues.
- He greeted everyone with his usual amiability.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。