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Definition of Chumminess
1. Noun. The quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability.
Generic synonyms: Sociability, Sociableness
Derivative terms: Chummy, Chummy, Comradely, Comrade
Definition of Chumminess
1. Noun. The state of being chummy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chumminess
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chumminess
Literary usage of Chumminess
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Messages of the Men and Religion Movement by Men and Religion Forward Movement (1912)
""chumminess" between parents and son will make the personal method of question
and answer most natural; but if there is not this "chumminess" it may be ..."
2. The Lover's Lexicon: A Handbook for Novelists, Playwrights, Philosophers by Frederick Greenwood (1893)
"To be mates and comrades is good — nothing better but one thing: to be chums.
chumminess — (delightful word, and quite legitimate) ..."
3. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"... tone was chumminess itself. "Oh, yes, for a time. And you?" "I was not dancing.
I am a newspaperman." "Oh! A journalist? I see! ..."
4. The Bookman (1906)
"For all our chumminess we never had one word on any earthly subject except Venice.
I never even got a hint of what he had been up to there, or when, or how, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"As men, they would have been ashamed not to meet our "jolliness" and chumminess
with a handsome amount of reciprocation; and so, as I say, my dear, ..."
6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1898)
"The paper indicated a ' chumminess ' on the part of the birds that enabled the
writer to fairly rain down records of species that ordinarily, ..."
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