affectionateness

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But all that is attractive, gracious, charming in behaviour, all affectionateness and friendliness, must not proceed from the concepts, for if it does, “we feel intention, and are put out of tune.”

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

Your villa is admirable, and you yourself, as you sit there, are the personification of comfort, the personification, too, of gentle, sweet, undemonstrative affectionateness.

From The Front Yard by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

With the utmost affectionateness and freedom of intercourse there was a certain raptness of devotion, a mingled simplicity and elevation of thought and feeling, peculiarly his own.

From Fletcher of Madeley by Macdonald, Frederic W.

He spoke with a careless affectionateness, for the young Countess in her helpless beauty appealed to him.

From A Modern Mercenary by Prichard, K. (Kate)

She saw Noel's father and mother again, and was greeted by the latter with a bright and conditional affectionateness that inspected even while it acclaimed.

From Consequences by Delafield, E. M.