Entry Word: complaisance

Function: noun

Meaning: a desire or disposition to please <the complaisance of his girlfriend is such that she goes along with everything he says>

Synonyms amenability, amiability, good-naturedness

Related Words affability, amicability, congeniality, cordiality, friendliness, geniality, sociability; agreeableness, graciousness, pleasantness; kindheartedness, kindliness, warmheartedness; compliance, docility, passivity, submissiveness

Near Antonyms disagreeableness, sullenness, surliness, ungraciousness; disobedience, intractability, recalcitrance