Definition of Good-neighborliness

1. Noun. A disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors.

Exact synonyms: Good-neighbourliness, Neighborliness, Neighbourliness
Generic synonyms: Friendliness
Derivative terms: Neighborly, Neighbourly
Antonyms: Unneighborliness

Definition of Good-neighborliness

1. Noun. the state of being good neighbors ¹

2. Noun. friendship and cooperation with, and noninterference in the internal affairs of another country ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Good-neighborliness

good-for-nothing
good-for-nothings
good-hearted
good-heartedly
good-heartedness
good-humored
good-humoredly
good-humoredness
good-humoured
good-king-henry
good-looking
good-lookingness
good-natured
good-naturedly
good-naturedness
good-neighborliness (current term)
good-neighbourliness
good-sized
good-tempered
good-temperedness
good-time
good-time Charlie
good God
good Lord
good Samaritan
good afternoon
good and
good as gold
good authority

Literary usage of Good-neighborliness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Democracy and Asiatic Citizenship by Sidney Lewis Gulick (1918)
"This remark was made without waiting to hear what substitute legislation would be more in harmony with good-neighborliness and the fundamental principles of ..."

2. Journal of the American Asiatic Association by American Asiatic Association (1909)
"The Imperial Government of Japan and the Imperial Government of China, actuated by the desire to consolidate the relations of amity and good neighborliness ..."

3. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"But Mama holds to the principles of the Golden Rule and Good Neighborliness. The Cavaliers shoot her, but Dave gets her life insurance and she is content. ..."

4. Good Neighbors: A Study in Vocational and Community Hygiene by Mary S. Haviland (1922)
"To rid your town of rats and mice will be a piece of true good neighborliness. Has it always been known that mosquitoes carried disease? ..."

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