pleasantness

English

Etymology

pleasant +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

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Noun

pleasantness (usually uncountable, plural pleasantnesses)

1. (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.

2. (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

• (pleasant demeanor): agreeableness, amiability, douceur, sweetness

Antonyms

• unpleasantness

Translations

state of being pleasant

• Esperanto: agrableco
• Georgian: სასიამოვნოობა (sasiamovnooba)
• Hungarian: kellemesség (hu)
• Indonesian: kenikmatan (id)
• Irish: aiteas m, aoibhiúlacht f, suáilceas m
• Latin: amoenitās f, iūcunditās f
• Romanian: agreabilitate f, caracter plăcut n, savurabilitate f
• Ukrainian: приє́мність f (pryjémnistʹ)

something pleasant

• Esperanto: agrablaĵo
• German: Annehmlichkeit (de) f, Angenehmheit f