pleasingness

Example Sentences

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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

Then our speech will be with grace in the lower sense of pleasingness.

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Maclaren, Alexander

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

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

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