pleasantness
pleasantness noun: the state or quality of being pleasant.
Noun
pleasantness (usually uncountable, plural pleasantnesses)
- The state or quality of being pleasant.
- I thoroughly enjoyed the amenity of the clean mountain air in the summer.
- 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.1929, Robert Mackintosh, Values, a Bird's Eye Survey, page 40
- Something pleasant.
- […] to destroy the affections of truth, and thereby the pleasantnesses and happinesses of heaven […]1813, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalypse, or, Book of revelations, explained
- Synonyms:
- agreeableness, amiability, douceur, sweetness
pleasantness meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
pleasantness in Tamil
- இனிமை, இதம், நயனுடைமை, இரதம்
pleasantness in Urdu
- pleasantness
- مٹھاس miṭhās
pleasantness in Malayalam
- ഇമ്പം, സന്തോഷം, നർമ്മഭാഷിതം
pleasantness in Kannada
- ಇಮ್ಮು, ಇಂಪು, ಆಹ್ಲಾದಕರತೆ
More languagesFewer languages
- pleasantness in Sanskrit
- स्वादु svādú
- pleasantness in Indonesian
- kenikmatan
Synonyms of pleasantness
Antonyms
Forms of pleasantness
| plural | pleasantnesses |
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Origin of pleasantness
From pleasant + -ness.
Questions about pleasantness
- What does pleasantness mean?
- Pleasantness means the state or quality of being pleasant.
- What is pleasantness in Tamil?
- Pleasantness in Tamil is இனிமை, இதம், நயனுடைமை. See Pleasantness meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is pleasantness?
- Pleasantness is a noun.
- What is the plural of pleasantness?
- The plural of pleasantness is pleasantnesses.
Words near pleasantness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pleasantness (page history and authors); pleasantness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); مٹھاس (Urdu) (page history and authors); pleasantness (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pleasantness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); स्वादु (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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