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 Münsterberg, Hugo
She had always liked the physical presentment of Joe, but it was a presentment of clothes, and she had thought the pleasingness of it due to the neatness and taste with which he dressed.
From The Game by London, Jack
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
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
Some of them were pretty, and none had any defect in person, to take off from that general pleasingness which attends youth and innocence.
