The relative static permittivity at 1 MHz and high frequency limit permittivity at wavelength of sodium-D line of the binary mixtures of ethanolamine (2-aminoethanol) with alcohols (ethyl alcohol, ethylene glycol and glycerol) and amides (formamide, N,N-dimethylformamide and N,N-dimethylacetamide) have been investigated over the entire concentration range at 30 degrees C. The excess permittivity and Kirkwood correlation factor of the binary mixtures were determined to explore the hydrogen-bonded hetero-molecular interactions and their dependence on the number of hydroxyl groups of alcohols molecules and the extent of substitution in amides molecules. Results confirm that ethanolamine form weak H-bond interactions with alcohols. N,N-dimethylformamide and N,N-dimethylacetamide, but the dipolar alignments in these mixtures vary with number of hydroxyl group of alcohols and their molecular size. Comparatively strong H-bond interactions were found between ethanolamine and formamide molecules with reduce in number of parallel aligned effective dipoles. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.