pleasingness

Example Sentences

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In outward appearance she was not remarkable, though extremely pleasing, and it was a pleasingness that grew upon acquaintance.

From The Necromancers by Benson, Robert Hugh

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

That such pleasingness would reside for her in any man astonished her. 

From The Game by London, Jack

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