geniality

noun

Etymology: From Latin geniālitās, and perhaps also partly formed within English as genial + -ity.

1. The quality of being genial; friendly cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.

   “Sometimes this throat uttered Yes, sometimes it uttered No; sometimes it made inquiries about a time worn denizen of the place. Once it surprised her notions by remarking upon the friendliness and geniality written in the faces of the hills around.”

   “[…] and yet there was such a wilful geniality about him, such a strenuous air of being off duty and forgetting his rank, that no one was ever quite at ease in his presence.”