Word Meanings - AMABILITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lovableness. Jer. Taylor. Note: The New English Dictionary says this word is "usefully distinct from Amiability."

Related words: (words related to AMABILITY)

• DISTINCTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• ENGLISH
  A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. The King's, or Queen's, English. See under King. (more info) 1. Collectively, the people of England;
• DISTINCTURE
  Distinctness.
• DISTINCTIVENESS
  State of being distinctive.
• AMIABILITY
  The quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of disposition. Every excellency is a degree of amiability. Jer. Taylor.
• DISTINCTIVE
  1. Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar. The distinctive character and institutions of New England. Bancroft. 2. Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating. Sir T. Browne.
• DISTINCTION
  1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• ENGLISHRY
  1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. Cowell. 2. A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.
• DISTINCTLY
  1. With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly. 2. With meaning; significantly. Thou dost snore distinctly; There's meaning in thy snores. Shak. Syn. -- Separately;
• ENGLISHABLE
  Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.
• DISTINCTIVELY
  With distinction; plainly.
• ENGLISHMAN
  A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.
• USEFULLY
  In a useful manner.
• ENGLISHISM
  1. A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English. M. Arnold. 2. A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism.
• DICTIONARY
  1. A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook. I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or
• DISTINCT
  1. Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified. Wherever thus created -- for no place Is yet distinct by name. Milton. 2. Marked; variegated. The which was dight With divers flowers distinct
• CONTRADISTINCT
  Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin.
• UNDISTINCTLY
  Indistinctly.
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• INDISTINCTLY
  In an indistinct manner; not clearly; confusedly; dimly; as, certain ideas are indistinctly comprehended. In its sides it was bounded distinctly, but on its ends confusedly an indistinctly. Sir I. Newton.
• EXTRADICTIONARY
  Consisting not in words, but in realities. Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six. Sir T. Browne.
• INDISTINCT
  1. Not distinct or distinguishable; not separate in such a manner as to be perceptible by itself; as, the indistinct parts of a substance. "Indistinct as water is in water." Shak. 2. Obscure to the mind or senses; not clear; not definite; confused;
• CONTRADISTINCTION
  Distinction by contrast. That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South.
• UNDISTINCTIVE
  Making no distinctions; not discriminating; impartial. As undistinctive Death will come here one day. Dickens.
• CONTRADISTINCTIVE
  having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast. -- Con`tra*dis*tinc"tive, n.
• INDO-ENGLISH
  Of or relating to the English who are born or reside in India; Anglo-Indian.
• BOROUGH-ENGLISH
  A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone.