placability

noun

Definition of placabilitynext
as in gentleness

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  1. gentleness
  2. complaisance
  3. friendliness
  4. sociability
Noun
  • The gentleness the film captures is perhaps all too mollifying.
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Subtle notifications: In talking with friends who have Oura Rings, I’m struck by how many people appreciate the gentleness of the Oura Ring’s notifications; both models share this feature.
    Amy Fischer MS, RD, Health, 29 Nov. 2024
Definition of gentleness
Noun
  • Yet electing to be private doesn’t amount to complaisance or complicity.
    Lesley M.M. Blume, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Sammy’s awareness of his mother’s infidelity, his father’s complaisance, and how both were relieved by his creative Boy Scout merit-badge projects and fantasies requires a separate article.
    Armond White, National Review, 16 Nov. 2022
Definition of complaisance
Noun
  • Even in humans, a smile does not always convey friendliness and joy.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • That kind of friendliness requires adopting the clichéd feel-goodery inherent in many group fitness classes.
    Mikala Jamison, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of friendliness
Noun
  • The Covid pandemic may have changed habits slightly — people are understandably more reticent about passing around the same cup and straw — but sociability is still key.
    Jack Lang, The Athletic, 9 July 2024
  • And it’s designed very specifically to assess at a very fine level various aspects of intelligence, of personality, of sociability.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2014
Definition of sociability
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