pleasing
adjective
pleasingness
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a word derived from
pleasing.
Example Sentences
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Consonance, however, is not identical with pleasingness, for different combinations are sometimes pleasing, sometimes displeasing.
From The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Dench Puffer Howes
It is 'the pleasingness of apparently equal differences.'
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
In outward appearance she was not remarkable, though extremely pleasing, and it was a pleasingness that grew upon acquaintance.
From The Necromancers by Robert Hugh Benson
She had always liked the physical presentment of Joe, but it was a presentment of clothes, and she had thought the pleasingness of it due to the neatness and taste with which he dressed.
From The Game by Jack London
Some of them were pretty, and none had any defect in person, to take off from that general pleasingness which attends youth and innocence.
