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PLEASANTNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of giving pleasure
Example:
the pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day
Synonyms:
pleasantness; sweetness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("pleasantness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Attribute:
pleasant (affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings)
unpleasant (offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pleasantness"):
pleasingness (the quality of giving pleasure to the senses)
agreeableness; amenity (pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions)
enjoyableness (pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed)
niceness (the quality of nice)
Antonym:
unpleasantness (the quality of giving displeasure)
Derivation:
pleasant (affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("pleasantness" is a kind of...):
pleasance; pleasure (a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pleasantness"):
afterglow (the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event)
Antonym:
unpleasantness (the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling)
Derivation:
pleasant ((of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior)
