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Pleasantness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being pleasant. uncountable, usually

    "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. 2
    the quality of giving pleasure wordnet
  3. 3
    Something pleasant. countable, usually

    "[…] to destroy the affections of truth, and thereby the pleasantnesses and happinesses of heaven […]"

  4. 4
    the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling wordnet

Etymology

From pleasant + -ness.

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