The word "affability" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a pleasant and friendly manner. Example sentence: His affability made him very popular among his colleagues.
For nearly 13 minutes in the bowels of the main stand yesterday, Ponting was the Spirit of Cricket itself, a monument to patience, candour and affability, as he built a public relations innings of which Nelson Mandela would be proud.
His affability and conversational style of speech-making were made for television, and he was regularly named as the politician voters would most like to go down the pub with - even if some of them always did sense that the problem would be getting him out of the pub afterwards.
If trade trumps terrorism, then Kashmiris would indeed have reason to cheer.All blow awayThe current affability, however, could yet blow away as quickly as bonfire smoke in a Srinagar sky.
People still argue about whether Mr Medvedev's affability was sincere, or a stunt.The frost started biting over Libya.
His sunny affability slips only twice once when asked about the lynching his grandfather stopped.
Mr Hart, for all his burly, hippy affability, was a cyber-revolutionary, with a snappy list of the effects he expected e-books to have:Books prices plummet.
With a ready smile, Mr Portman exudes both affability and competence.
Much credit goes to Hilmi Ozkok, Turkey's top general, whose affability belies a sharp intellect and iron will.Since becoming chief of the general staff in August 2002, General Ozkok has altered the face of the country's rigidly hierarchical and secretive armed forces.
Besides Gillette, car makers, confectioners and banks have all rushed to capitalise on Mr Federer's success, looks and affability.
It is a characteristically combative metaphor from a man who presents himself, with charming affability, as a straight-talking soldier with no patience for artifice.
(Helpfully, his thrusting younger colleagues would probably not see the 59-year-old Mr Johnson as a long-term obstacle to their own leadership aspirations).To an extent that Mr Johnson may now regret, his affability has occasionally extended to bald self-deprecation, specifically about his aptitude for the very top job.
