Hypertext Webster Gateway: "obligingness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Obliging \O*bli"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. -- {O*bli"ging*ly}. adv. --
{O*bli"ging*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

obligingness
n : a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
[syn: {complaisance}, {compliance}, {compliancy}, {deference}]


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