pleasantness

noun

Etymology

From pleasant + -ness.

  1. derived from plaisant
  2. inherited from plesaunte
  3. suffixed as pleasantness — “pleasant + ness

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being pleasant.

    • 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. Something pleasant.

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

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA