| NOUN | feeling | pleasantness | the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli |
|---|---|---|---|
| attribute | pleasantness, sweetness | the quality of giving pleasure |
| Meaning | The feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling. | |
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| Narrower | afterglow | The pleasure of remembering some pleasant event |
| Broader | pleasure, pleasance | A fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience |
| Opposite | unpleasantness | The feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli |
| Adjectives | pleasant | (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior |
| Meaning | The quality of giving pleasure. | |
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| Example | "the pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day" | |
| Synonym | sweetness | |
| Attributes | pleasant | affording pleasure |
| unpleasant | Disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings | |
| Narrower | agreeableness, amenity | pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions |
| enjoyableness | pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed | |
| niceness | The quality of nice | |
| pleasingness | An agreeable beauty that gives pleasure or enjoyment | |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
| Opposite | unpleasantness | The quality of giving displeasure |
| Spanish | carácter agradable | |
| Catalan | caràcter agradable | |
| Adjectives | pleasant | affording pleasure |
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