pleasingness

pleasingness
noun
1. pleasant palatability
Syn: ↑tastiness
Derivationally related forms: ↑tasty (for: ↑tastiness)
Hypernyms: ↑palatability, ↑palatableness
2. an agreeable beauty that gives pleasure or enjoyment
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"the liveliness and pleasingness of dark eyes"- T.N. Carver

Ant: ↑unpleasingness
Hypernyms: ↑beauty

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