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Vinony

pleasantness

noun

  1. quality of causing pleasure
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noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English pleasant Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English pleasantness From pleasant + -ness.

  1. The state or quality of being pleasant.

    “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.”

  2. Something pleasant.

    “[…] to destroy the affections of truth, and thereby the pleasantnesses and happinesses of heaven […]”