pleasingness
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
When Sylvester had finished his reading, the friends were unanimous in their opinion that the tale was worthy of the Serapion Club, and they particularly admired the pleasingness of the general tone which characterised it.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
Some of them were pretty, and none had any defect in person, to take off from that general pleasingness which attends youth and innocence.
