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Definition of Pleasingness

1. Noun. Pleasant palatability.

2. Noun. An agreeable beauty that gives pleasure or enjoyment. "The liveliness and pleasingness of dark eyes"

Definition of Pleasingness

1. Noun. The quality or state of being pleasing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pleasingness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleasingness

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Literary usage of Pleasingness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outlines of Psychology: Based Upon the Results of Experimental Investigation by Oswald Külpe, Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
"In that case, we have in the pleasingness of the golden section simply the ... It is easy to determine the relative pleasingness of other linear divisions ..."

2. The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians by George Gillanders Findlay (1904)
"(2) Ethically applied, ^ÉÍ/MS denoted pleasingness of disposition, favour—both (a) in the active sense of obligingness, graciousness ; and (b) in the ..."

3. The Epistles to the Thessalonians by George Gillanders Findlay (1898)
"(1) The radical sense of Grace (charis) in common Greek is pleasingness. ... (2) It further signified pleasingness of disposition, favour—both in the active ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"... improvements which have been made in language, within these fur centuries, in other respects ; yet, with regard to the pleasingness of sound alone, ..."

5. Outlines of Psychology: Based Upon the Results of Experimental Investigation by Oswald Külpe, Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
"In that case, we have in the pleasingness of the golden section simply the ... It is easy to determine the relative pleasingness of other linear divisions ..."

6. The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians by George Gillanders Findlay (1904)
"(2) Ethically applied, ^ÉÍ/MS denoted pleasingness of disposition, favour—both (a) in the active sense of obligingness, graciousness ; and (b) in the ..."

7. The Epistles to the Thessalonians by George Gillanders Findlay (1898)
"(1) The radical sense of Grace (charis) in common Greek is pleasingness. ... (2) It further signified pleasingness of disposition, favour—both in the active ..."

8. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"... improvements which have been made in language, within these fur centuries, in other respects ; yet, with regard to the pleasingness of sound alone, ..."

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