PLEASINGNESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does pleasingness mean? • PLEASINGNESS (noun)
The noun PLEASINGNESS has 2 senses:
1. pleasant palatability
2. an agreeable beauty that gives pleasure or enjoyment
Familiarity information: PLEASINGNESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PLEASINGNESS (noun)
Meaning:
Pleasant palatability
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
pleasingness; tastiness
Hypernyms ("pleasingness" is a kind of...):
palatability; palatableness (the property of being acceptable to the mouth)
Meaning:
An agreeable beauty that gives pleasure or enjoyment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
the liveliness and pleasingness of dark eyes
Hypernyms ("pleasingness" is a kind of...):
beauty (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)
Antonym:
unpleasingness (the quality of being unpleasant)
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