(n.) Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories.
Example Sentences:
(1) This sense of belonging has nothing to do with fiscal or governmental union and everything to do with proximity, amity and difference.
(2) Morton said as far as she knew no other organisation had picked up the service Amity was losing, although that had happened with other organisations.
(3) In Further Tales of the City , published in 1982, Maupin maps amity between gay men and straight men – terra incognita still.
(4) Initially, the Tahrir Square demonstrations were a model of sectarian amity, with Muslim and Christian demonstrators protecting each other from the violence of the police and the regime's thugs.
(5) Johnson told Indian students at Amity University, south of Delhi, that he was pressing the government to set up an educational exports commission to promote Britain's universities abroad and help secure their future.
(6) But they are bound by steel hoops of amity compared to the Tories.
(7) The attempt to promote international amity appears to be an independent one.
(8) "Consort with all religions with amity and concord, that they may inhale from you the sweet fragrance of God," reads the inscription.
(9) Always warms my heart when you realise how many nice, normal, caring people there are out there – about 500,000 people walking along in complete amity.
(10) And young people in the territory – particularly Aboriginal young people – are the most vulnerable … and yet this is the sector we seem to be cutting the most.” The Darwin-based Amity Community Services was one of the latest organisations to receive a knockback, for its volatile substance and alcohol and drug outreach service.
(11) But Kiir, like his opposite number in Khartoum, President Omar al-Bashir, is acting stubborn, drawing on decades of mutual distrust, bad faith and bloody-mindedness while casting aside more recent pledges of amity.
Friendliness
Definition:
(n.) The condition or quality of being friendly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everywhere I was treated with friendliness and kindness by service users, usually depicted as "low life" and "inadequates".
(2) A multivariate discriminate analysis of 13 variables on 91 healthy and 63 nervous dogs assayed at 3 months of age shows: (1) that much of our present behavioral testing procedures is redundant, and (2) that simple "friendliness to humans" in the dog is as effective for discriminating between the two groups as any of the 13 measures, taken either singly or collectively.
(3) Skipton's high street is a past winner of the Academy of Urbanism's ( academyofurbanism.org.uk) award for the greatest street in the land judged on criteria including user friendliness, local character and distinctiveness, environmental and social sustainability and commercial success and viability.
(4) The firmness of a handshake carries meaning as clearly as words, in the same way that a smile radiates confidence and friendliness.
(5) Its people ask very little but offer all they have - hospitality, warmth, friendliness and willingness to help.
(6) Most designations of bike-friendliness have gone not to proper cities but college towns: Davis, Boulder, Long Beach, Iowa City – places that, while pleasant enough, command little national, let alone international import.
(7) Attention is paid to the anti-decubitus quality, the users-friendliness for medical attendants, nursing attendants and the patient himself, the maintenance-friendliness and the cost-price.
(8) If you add the inauguration pivot to the president's other recent contacts with the business world, you get something that looks almost like friendliness.
(9) Significant improvements in the accessibility, operation and user-friendliness of the program have been made, facilitated by recent advances in microcomputer technology.
(10) The IMAGE image analysis language guarantees user friendliness, and, last but not least, the enormous amount of software offers accurate, reproducible measurements and dedicated evaluation programs.
(11) ", the mock friendliness sounding especially hollow.
(12) Especially on-trend these days is an ersatz, kitschy friendliness .
(13) A multicenter field trial is currently gathering data that will allow researchers to compare the performance characteristics of each set of criteria, including dimensions such as classification rates, reliability, and user-friendliness.
(14) It is argued that it is not helpful to view evaluation as a method for achieving user-friendliness, rather it should be seen as a participating activity within design and development.
(15) The "user-friendliness" and efficacy of this percutaneous filter makes it a treatment of choice in the partial interruption of the inferior vena cava.
(16) Given my tendency to wear women’s clothes, while looking like a man, I expect I could have got beaten up easily.” Six UK universities get top marks for gay-friendliness Read more However, Grainger says that universities can only do so much to support students.
(17) If the climate friendliness of the third runway depends on huge, politically unimaginable tax rises on flights by the UK government and an end to international buck passing, what is to be done?
(18) Thoughtfulness and Personal Relations showed cultural declines during the time period studied, whereas Friendliness showed a long-term cultural decline.
(19) Ghana was selected because of its friendliness, enthusiasm for the project, and helpful co-operation given in initial planning.
(20) Hostility decreased and friendliness increased in depressives after amitriptyline; upon recovery, there were no significant differences in hostility between depressed patients and control subjects, whereas such differences were striking during the illness.