[f. prec. + -NESS.]
1. The quality of being amicable; friendliness.
1624. Bp. Hall, Peace-maker, § 5, Wks. (1808), 76 (R.). True friends to it [peace]; and to that amicableness that attends it!
1868. Geo. Eliot, Felix H., 37. The conversation … ended with determined amicableness.
† 2. Of things. Cf. AMICABLE 3. Obs.
1667. Boyle, in Phil. Trans., II. 552. This Experiment … to shew the Amicableness of Volatil spirits to the Blood.
