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Meaning of "pleasantness" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PLEASANTNESS

ˈplezntnɪs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLEASANTNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pleasantness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PLEASANTNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pleasure

Pleasure describes the broad class of mental states that humans and other animals experience as positive, enjoyable, or worth seeking. It includes more specific mental states such as happiness, entertainment, enjoyment, ecstasy, and euphoria. In psychology, the pleasure principle describes pleasure as a positive feedback mechanism, motivating the organism to recreate in the future the situation which it has just found pleasurable. According to this theory, organisms are similarly motivated to avoid situations that have caused pain in the past. The experience of pleasure is subjective and different individuals will experience different kinds and amounts of pleasure in the same situation. Many pleasurable experiences are associated with satisfying basic biological drives, such as eating, exercise, sex or defecation. Other pleasurable experiences are associated with social experiences and social drives, such as the experiences of accomplishment, recognition, and service. The appreciation of cultural artifacts and activities such as art, music, and literature is often pleasurable.

Definition of pleasantness in the English dictionary

The definition of pleasantness in the dictionary is the quality of being friendly. Other definition of pleasantness is the quality of giving or affording pleasure.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PLEASANTNESS

appropriateness · bluntness · brightness · completeness · correctness · eyewitness · faintness · fitness · greatness · hotness · intentness · lightness · quaintness · recentness · robustness · shortness · softness · tightness · unpleasantness · witness

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLEASANTNESS

pleasable · pleasance · pleasant · Pleasant Island · pleasantly · pleasantries · pleasantry · please · please oneself · pleased · pleased to meet you · pleased with · pleasedly · pleaseman · Pleasence · pleaser · pleasing · pleasingly · pleasingness · pleasurability

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLEASANTNESS

adeptness · aptness · aquafitness · bear witness · business · compactness · deftness · expert witness · flatness · incorrectness · inertness · justness · physical fitness · political correctness · promptness · quietness · sweetness · tartness · unfitness · vastness · wetness

Synonyms and antonyms of pleasantness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pleasantness» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PLEASANTNESS

Find out the translation of pleasantness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of pleasantness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pleasantness» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

愉悦
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

agradabilidad
570 millions of speakers
en

English

pleasantness
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

माधुर्य
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اللطف
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

приятность
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

agradabilidade
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

মাধুরী
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

charme
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Keseronokan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Freundlichkeit
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

愉快
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

쾌적
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Nyenengake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự dể thương
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

இனிதான
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

सुखकारकता
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

hoşluk
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

piacevolezza
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

uprzejmość
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

приємність
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

plăcute
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pleasantness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lieflike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pleasantness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pleasant
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pleasantness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLEASANTNESS»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of pleasantness
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pleasantness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLEASANTNESS»

Discover the use of pleasantness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pleasantness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Psychoacoustics: Facts and Models
The dependences of sensory pleasantness described so far have been determined using a constant loudness of 14 sone. Sensory pleasantness, however, depends also on loudness in such a way that up to about 20 sone, there is little ...
Hugo Fastl, Eberhard Zwicker, 2007
2
The Pleasantness of a Religious Life
Matthew Henry. religious; and they leave off being wise when they leave off doing good. Now to recommend to us the study and practice of this true wisdom, to bring us into a willing subjection to her authority, and to keep us to a conscientious ...
Matthew Henry
3
Desire, Practical Reason, and the Good
Socrates himself seems to take this line at 356a8–c3, suggesting that one must always choose whichever of the available options wins out in your comparative assessment of their comprehensive pleasantness.24 But from what I can tell he ...
Sergio Tenenbaum, 2010
4
Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films ...
Words that are high in Pleasantness are equally likely to be low or high in Activation. The same is true for words that are low in Pleasantness. The two dimensions are not related and are therefore said to be orthogonal. This means that a word ...
Roberta Piazza, Monika Bednarek, Fabio Rossi, 2011
5
Ellesmere's plan for a new essay. On the miseries of human ...
The meeting with a little more or a little less of pleasantness might not affect persons engaged in such great concerns. But the crowd are necessarily occupied in small affairs, wherein the modes, the manners, and the ways of acting are almost ...
Sir Arthur Helps, 1860
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Selected Sensory Methods: Problems and Approaches to ...
... andF(3, 32) = 17.22, p < 0.01, respectively. The interaction between concentration and context was also significant, F(42, 448) = 4.31, p < 0.01. Pleasantness — The nonmonotonic shape of the curves for judgments of pleasantness (Figs.
J. T. Kuznicki, Rutkiewic, 1982
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Personality at Work: The Role of Individual Differences in ...
For instance, Mehrabian and West (1977) examined the desire to work at a task as a function of the psychological properties of the setting (the situation and task pleasantness and arousing qualities) and the individual (screening or not ...
Adrian Furnham, 1992
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Titan
Gradually some improvement is made ; and, meanwhile, mankind have had a great deal of amusement and instruction out of the affair. PLEASANTNESS. Pleasantness is the chief element of agreeable companionship ; and this pleasantness ...
Titan, James Hogg, 1859
9
Culture and Emotion
Americans appraised emotional events as somewhat pleasant, whereas the Japanese appraised emotional events as "neutral". Consistent with our predictions, independent and interdependent concerns predicted pleasantness to a different ...
Agneta Fischer, A. S. R. Manstead, Agneta H. Fischer, 2002
10
Cyclopædia bibliographica: a library manual of theological ...
3 54 Manton, T. Sermon. Works, 4. 1038 South, K ., d.d. Ways of wisdom ways of pleasantness. Sermons, I.I; Brogden, J., Must. 2. 404 Barrow, Isaac, d.d. The pleasantnels of religion. Ser. Work,, 1. 1 Beveridge, Bp. The pleasure of being holy.
James Darling, 1859

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLEASANTNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pleasantness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Review: New 'Vacation' is fun and comical trip, even if it isn't the …
Still, there is pleasantness to the family dynamic, like when Rusty (a blank situational slate made passable by Helms' wide-eyed charm) ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
2
Popular At 20, Married At 30: Well-Being In Midlife Depends On How …
... social interactions in diaries, rating encounters lasting 10 minutes or more on intimacy, pleasantness, and satisfaction at ages 20 and 30. «Medical Daily, Jul 15»
3
Research confirms fat is sixth taste; names it oleogustus
... add to their appeal just like unpleasant bitter chemicals can enhance the pleasantness of foods like chocolate, coffee and wine," said Mattes, ... «Purdue Newsroom, Jul 15»
4
The oxytocin system promotes resilience to the effects of neonatal …
OT increases the perceived pleasantness of social touch and enhances functional magnetic resonance imaging responses in the insula, ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
5
Automatic integration of confidence in the brain valuation signal
Relationship between confidence and stimulus pleasantness or age rating (study 1a) ... Neural integration of confidence in stimulus pleasantness and age rating ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
6
The Importance Of Knowing Who Your Friends Are
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel” (Proverbs 27:9). © 2015. «The Boca Raton Tribune, Jul 15»
7
Train, the Fray give a big Starlight Theatre crowd a dose of the usual
Like most of the Fray's songs, it brims with a warm pleasantness and bears no sharp edges or the slightest sign of menace. Despite the band's ... «Kansas City Star, Jul 15»
8
Food review: Potteries Pantry in Hanley
... chips, mixed veg, gravy, served up by ladies of such jaunty pleasantness I could happily have doggy-bagged them up and taken them home. «Stoke Sentinel, Jul 15»
9
7 Pleasant Surprises From The 2015 Emmy Nominations
I guess the pleasantness of this surprise is relative, depending on how you took this year's season of GoT. If you loved it, great; if you soured at ... «Film School Rejects, Jul 15»
10
Column: Leaving comfort zone results in 'brain selfie'
The first session involved me trying to look at some images and rate them according to pleasantness, while I periodically received a puff of air in ... «Greenfield Daily Reporter, Jul 15»
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