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Definition of Companionability

1. Noun. Suitability to be a companion.

Definition of Companionability

1. Noun. The state of being companionable, suitability for companionship. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Companionability

Literary usage of Companionability

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Wit of the Wild by Ernest Ingersoll (1906)
"A similar fondness for crowding characterizes all sorts of swallows; and that it implies a peculiar companionability of temper is indicated by the +S*• ..."

2. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"Above all things exercise toward him companionability; encourage confidences, especially as to hopes, ambitions, views on life. Be quick to see the good, ..."

3. The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political by Franklin K. Lane (1922)
"She has an aura of sympathy and companionability which makes her one with the healing earth and the warming, encompassing sunshine. ..."

4. French Traits: An Essay in Comparative Criticism by William Crary Brownell (1889)
"... received the advantages of long evolutionary differentiation, so that it has of necessity developed the qualities which create companionability. ..."

5. French Traits: An Essay in Comparative Criticism by William Crary Brownell (1889)
"... received the advantages of long evolutionary differentiation, so that it has of necessity developed the qualities which create companionability. ..."

6. The Land of Contrasts: A Briton's View of His American Kin by James Fullarton Muirhead (1898)
"He will find that her frank and charming companionability is as far removed from masculinity as from coarseness; that the points in which she differs from ..."

7. The Real Blake: A Portrait Biography by Edwin John Ellis (1907)
"Bob, with his cheery ways and his cleverness and companionability, put all that now out of the region of Blake's daily meditations. ..."

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