pleasingness
- a word derived from pleasing.
Example Sentences
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In outward appearance she was not remarkable, though extremely pleasing, and it was a pleasingness that grew upon acquaintance.
From The Necromancers by Benson, Robert Hugh
When Sylvester had finished his reading, the friends were unanimous in their opinion that the tale was worthy of the Serapion Club, and they particularly admired the pleasingness of the general tone which characterised it.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
Consonance, however, is not identical with pleasingness, for different combinations are sometimes pleasing, sometimes displeasing.
From The Psychology of Beauty by Howes, Ethel Dench Puffer
Doubtless the painter had noticed the pleasingness of such reflections, as repeating the human form, the supreme object of interest; but the interest stopped there.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various
It is 'the pleasingness of apparently equal differences.'
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo
