obligingness
- noun
- /əˈblaɪdʒɪŋnəs/
:
servicialidad
- Her obligingness made it easy for everyone to ask for help when they needed it.
Examples
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The staff, at first inclined to view me with frightened suspicion, soon realized that I had no intention of interfering with their work, and relaxed into a mood of wary obligingness.
Fiction book (1992) -
The message of this triptych was clear: throughout the course, students test the attentiveness, the appreciativeness, the obligingness, and the acquiescence of the teacher; at the end of the course, students evaluate the teachers on these 'virtues,' and later the watchful deans decide who stays.
Academic text (1993) -
They obliged me with what I genuinely think seemed to be a genuine, empathetic obligingness.
Blog text (6) -
The employees showed their obligingness by staying late to assist a customer in need.
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His obligingness in offering to carry her bags was much appreciated during the long walk.
Synonyms
128
2.1
Being kind and ready to give money, time, or help to others
16
6.1
Kind feelings and actions that help other people
6
4.1
Being kind, polite, and generous to other people
3
2.3
Willingness to support other people
2
8.4
Kind acts that help other people
1
9.1
Willingness to please others and accept their wishes
A habit of doing what other people want even if you disagree
A willingness to work with others and accept suggestions
A willingness to cooperate and accept suggestions
A friendly, helpful way of behaving toward other people
Willingness to give money, time, or help to other people without asking for anything
Antonyms
How Willing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Obligingness comes from oblige, which comes from the Latin root ligare meaning 'to bind'. Think of being 'bound' to help someone—like a friendly duty—so obligingness means being ready to do favors, and you can see the same root in obligation.