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n. - An agreeable beauty that gives happiness or enjoyment;

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  • The liveliness and pleasingness of dark eyes- T.N. Carver
  • Adjective : a pleasing performance
  • 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.
  • Cromwell himself, however great a man, was displeased to think that his warts and wrinkles had been found less inimical to pleasingness of aspect, than might have been...
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