PLEASANTNESS

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Meaning:

The quality of giving pleasure

Example:

the pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day

Synonyms:

pleasantness; sweetness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("pleasantness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

pleasant (affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings)

unpleasant (offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pleasantness"):

pleasingness (the quality of giving pleasure to the senses)

agreeableness; amenity (pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions)

enjoyableness (pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed)

niceness (the quality of nice)

Antonym:

unpleasantness (the quality of giving displeasure)

Derivation:

pleasant (affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings)

Meaning:

The feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("pleasantness" is a kind of...):

pleasance; pleasure (a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pleasantness"):

afterglow (the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event)

Antonym:

unpleasantness (the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling)

Derivation:

pleasant ((of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior)