Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Pleasing or agreeable character or quality; the quality of being pleasing or of affording pleasure.
  • noun Vivacity; gaiety.
  • noun Jocularity; pleasantry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state or quality of being pleasant.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable The state or quality of being pleasant.
  • noun countable Something pleasant.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling
  • noun the quality of giving pleasure

Etymologies

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pleasant +‎ -ness

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