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pleasantness

pleasantness noun: the state or quality of being pleasant.

Noun

pleasantness (usually uncountable, plural pleasantnesses)

  1. (usually) 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
  2. (countable, usually) 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

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
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pleasantness in Sanskrit
स्वादु svādú
pleasantness in Indonesian
kenikmatan

Synonyms of pleasantness

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of pleasantness

Forms of pleasantness

pluralpleasantnesses

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

  1. pleasanter
  2. pleasantest
  3. pleasantish
  4. pleasantly
  5. pleasantnes
  6. pleasantness
  7. pleasantnesse
  8. pleasantnesses
  9. Pleasanton
  10. pleasantries
  11. pleasantry

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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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