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PLEASINGNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pleasingness mean?
• PLEASINGNESS (noun)
The noun PLEASINGNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of giving pleasure to the senses
Familiarity information: PLEASINGNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of giving pleasure to the senses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
the liveliness and pleasingness of dark eyes
Hypernyms ("pleasingness" is a kind of...):
pleasantness; sweetness (the quality of giving pleasure)
Antonym:
unpleasingness (the quality of being unpleasant to to the senses)
Derivation:
pleasing (pleasant or agreeable to the senses)
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