pleasantness

Other forms: pleasantnesses

Definitions of pleasantness
  1. noun
    the quality of giving pleasure
    “the pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day”
    synonyms: sweetness
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    antonyms:
    unpleasantness
    the quality of giving displeasure
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    agreeableness, amenity
    pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions
    enjoyableness
    pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed
    niceness
    the quality of nice
    disagreeableness
    the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant
    abrasiveness
    the quality of being sharply disagreeable
    acridity, acridness
    the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone
    unpalatability, unpalatableness
    the property of being unacceptable to the mind
    type of:
    quality
    an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
  2. noun
    the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling
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    antonyms:
    unpleasantness
    the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling
    types:
    afterglow
    the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event
    type of:
    pleasance, pleasure
    a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
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