pleasantness

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Pleasantness might represent smooth and easy brain action, unpleasantness slow and impeded brain action.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.

And he adds, “That he knows none that blame the excellent Writings of Mr. Fuller, which have a Pleasantness not unlike that of Mr. Alsop.”

From A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) by Collins, Anthony

Pleasantness flies where'er he plies His gruesomest of trades.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 8, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

Indeed we were so much taken with the Pleasantness of the Country, that we travell'd into the Woods too far to recover our Boat and Company that Night.

From A New Voyage to Carolina, containing the exact description and natural history of that country; together with the present state thereof; and a journal of a thousand miles, travel'd thro' several nations of Indians; giving a particular account of their customs, manners, etc. by Lawson, John

The Day's Toil's ended, and the Ev'ning smiles With all the Joy and Pleasantness of Plenty.

From Ponteach The Savages of America by Moses, Montrose Jonas