pleasantness
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English
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[edit]pleasantness (usually uncountable, plural pleasantnesses)
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being pleasant.
- 1929, Robert Mackintosh, Values, a Bird's Eye Survey, page 40:
- If this is sound, the pleasantness of pleasure can no longer be our guide; the higherness of the higher pleasure must have the decisive word — hedonism has committed suicide.
- (countable) Something pleasant.
- 1813, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalypse, or, Book of revelations, explained:
- […] to destroy the affections of truth, and thereby the pleasantnesses and happinesses of heaven […]
Synonyms
[edit]- (pleasant demeanor): agreeableness, amiability, douceur, sweetness
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[edit]state of being pleasant
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something pleasant
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