Antonyms for obligingness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uh-blahy-jing |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈblaɪ dʒɪŋ |
- aloofness
- antagonism
- coolness
- corruption
- cruelty
- disadvantage
- disagreeableness
- disagreement
- discontent
- dishonesty
- dishonor
- disobedience
- disregard
- dissatisfaction
- evil
- handicap
- hindrance
- hostility
- immorality
- impoliteness
- indecency
- inhospitality
- loss
- meanness
- obstinancy
- rudeness
- unfriendliness
- unhappiness
- unneighborliness
- unsociableness
- wickedness
Definition of obligingness
Origin :- "willing to do service or favors," 1630s, present participle adjective from oblige. Related: Obligingly.
- As in complaisance : noun agreeableness
- As in goodness : noun decency, excellence
- As in hospitality : noun neighborliness
- Constance laughed again, so fully did the accountant's obligingness reassure her.
- Extract from : « Fruitfulness » by Emile Zola
- Working in, I can see, my own obligingness and amiability with every stitch.
- Extract from : « Summer in a Garden, and Calvin, A Study Of Character » by Charles Dudley Warner
- Profiting by her obligingness Dubarry unfolded his complaint.
- Extract from : « Balsamo, The Magician » by Alexander Dumas
- Perfect civility and obligingness I certainly did receive from the Virginian, only not a word of fellowship.
- Extract from : « The Virginian » by Owen Wister
- This is a sound and obligingness more obligingness leads to a harmony in hesitation.
- Extract from : « Tender Buttons » by Gertrude Stein
- All these gentlemen, by their obligingness and friendly reception, bound me to them eternally.
- Extract from : « Travels in Central Asia » by Arminius Vmbry
- One must acknowledge the amiability, politeness, and obligingness of the Italians.
- Extract from : « The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky » by Modeste Tchaikovsky
- So in I gently drew her to the compter, running behind it myself, with an air of great dilingence and obligingness.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Or The History Of A Young Lady, Volume 8 » by Samuel Richardson
- Therefore, if this work has any merit, no small part of it is due to Signor Foucard's obligingness.
- Extract from : « Lucretia Borgia » by Ferdinand Gregorovius
- He would never succeed in passing with the little car if the people did not evince some obligingness.
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
Synonyms for obligingness
- accommodation
- accommodativeness
- acquiescence
- advantage
- affability
- amiability
- beneficence
- benefit
- benevolence
- cheer
- companionship
- compliance
- comradeship
- consideration
- conviviality
- cordiality
- courtesy
- deference
- entertainment
- ethicality
- friendliness
- generosity
- geniality
- good cheer
- good will
- grace
- graciousness
- heartiness
- honesty
- honor
- hospitableness
- humaneness
- integrity
- kindheartedness
- kindliness
- kindness
- mercy
- merit
- morality
- nourishment
- obligingness
- politeness
- probity
- quality
- reception
- rectitude
- respect
- righteousness
- rightness
- sociability
- superiority
- uprightness
- value
- virtue
- warmth
- welcome
- wholesomeness
- worth
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