2. Contributing to, and sympathizing with, the enjoyment of life; sympathetically cheerful and cheering; jovial and inspiring joy or happiness; exciting pleasure and sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition. So much I feel my genial spirits droop. Milton.
3. Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn. [Obs.] Natural incapacity and genial indisposition. Sir T. Browne.
4. Denoting or marked with genius [R.] Men of genius have often attached the highest value to their less genial works. Hare. Genial gods (Pagan Mythol.), the powers supposed to preside over marriage and generation.
GENIALITY
Ge`ni*al"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. genialitas.]
Defn: The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
GENIALLY
Gen"ial*ly, adv.
1. By genius or nature; naturally. [Obs.] Some men are genially disposed to some opinions. Glanvill.
2. Gayly; cheerfully. Johnson.
GENIALNESS
Gen"ial*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being genial.