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pleasingness



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Some of them were pretty, and none had any defect in person, to take off from that general pleasingness which attends youth and innocence.

From A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue by Scott, Sarah

It is 'the pleasingness of apparently equal differences.'

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo

Doubtless the painter had noticed the pleasingness of such reflections, as repeating the human form, the supreme object of interest; but the interest stopped there.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various

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 Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

Consonance, however, is not identical with pleasingness, for different combinations are sometimes pleasing, sometimes displeasing.

From The Psychology of Beauty by Howes, Ethel Dench Puffer




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