pleasingness


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pleas·ing

 (plē′zĭng)
adj.
Giving pleasure or enjoyment; agreeable.
pleas′ing·ly adv.
pleas′ing·ness n.
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Noun1.pleasingness - pleasant palatability
tastiness
palatability, palatableness - the property of being acceptable to the mouth
2.pleasingness - an agreeable beauty that gives pleasure or enjoyment; "the liveliness and pleasingness of dark eyes"- T.N. Carver
beauty - the qualities that give pleasure to the senses
unpleasingness - the quality of being unpleasant
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That such pleasingness would reside for her in any man astonished her.
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