Meanings
plural pleasantnesses
- uncountableusuallyThe state or quality of being pleasant.
I thoroughly enjoyed the amenity of the clean mountain air in the summer.
1 more example
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 - countableusuallySomething pleasant.
[…] to destroy the affections of truth, and thereby the pleasantnesses and happinesses of heaven […]
1813, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalypse, or, Book of revelations, explainedSynonyms: agreeableness, amiability, douceur, sweetness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSomething pleasant.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Esperanto agrableco, agrablaĵo
- agrablecostate of being pleasant
- agrablaĵosomething pleasant
German Annehmlichkeit, Angenehmheit
- Annehmlichkeitsomething pleasant
- Angenehmheitsomething pleasant
Hungarian kellemesség
- kellemességstate of being pleasant
Indonesian kenikmatan
- kenikmatanstate of being pleasant
Irish aiteas, aoibhiúlacht
- aiteasstate of being pleasant
- aoibhiúlachtstate of being pleasant
- suáilceasstate of being pleasant
Latin amoenitās, iūcunditās
- amoenitāsstate of being pleasant
- iūcunditāsstate of being pleasant
Polish uprzejmość, grzeczność
- uprzejmośćstate of being pleasant
- grzecznośćstate of being pleasant
- łagodnośćstate of being pleasant
- udogodnieniesomething pleasant
- przyjemnośćsomething pleasant
Romanian agreabilitate, caracter plăcut
- agreabilitatestate of being pleasant
- caracter plăcutstate of being pleasant
- savurabilitatestate of being pleasant
Spanish agradabilidad, lo agradable
- agradabilidadstate of being pleasant
- lo agradablesomething pleasant
Ukrainian приє́мність
- приє́мність (pryjémnistʹ)state of being pleasant
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with pleasantness
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pleasantness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pleasantness
“pleasantness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pleasantness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pleasantness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pleasantness.
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