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pleasantness

DEFINITIONS OF: pleasantness

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n the quality of giving pleasure

“the pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day”
Synonyms:
sweetness
Antonyms:
unpleasantness
the quality of giving displeasure
Types:
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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

n the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling

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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