pleasantness

Other forms of pleasantness

plural

pleasantnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pleasantness

What does pleasantness mean?

pleasantness means "the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pleasantness?

pleasantness has 4 syllables: ple-a-sant-ness. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for pleasantness?

Close synonyms include sweetness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of pleasantness?

The recorded antonyms are unpleasantness, unpleasantness.

Is pleasantness a common word?

pleasantness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.