obligingness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: obligingness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for obligingness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
obligingness n a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others Synonym(s): complaisance, compliance, compliancy, obligingness, deference
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obliging \Obli"ging\, a. Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind. Mons.Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them. --Addison. Syn: Civil; complaisant; courteous; kind, -- {Obliging}, {Kind}, {Complaisant}. Usage: One is kind who desires to see others happy; one is complaisant who endeavors to make them so in social intercourse by attentions calculated to please; one who is obliging performs some actual service, or has the disposition to do so. -- {Obli"gingly}. adv. -- {Obli"ging*ness}, n.