pleasurableness
- a word derived from pleasurable.
Example Sentences
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And knowing this, we are content that the act of garnering, of preparing, for such future enjoyment, should lack any steady or deep pleasurableness about itself.
From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Lee, Vernon
It will be found that even in the lighter forms of drama which we accept as typical and satisfactory this social flavor may be detected, giving it body, but not detracting from its pleasurableness.
From How to See a Play by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The older psychology would perhaps have explained this reiterative tendency by the pleasurableness of the sensory elements, the mere colours and sounds of which the easily perceived shape is made up.
From The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Lee, Vernon
The point is worth urging, for not a little nonsense has been written concerning the absolute veracity of Thackeray's pictures: as if he sacrificed all pleasurableness to the modern Moloch, truth.
From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard
But the absolute and relative extension and the space-form of the components have also a great influence on the pleasurableness of combinations.
From The Psychology of Beauty by Howes, Ethel Dench Puffer
