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Displeasant vs Displeasantness - What's the difference?

displeasant | displeasantness |

As an adjective displeasant

is unpleasant, disagreeable.

As a noun displeasantness is

the state or quality of being displeasant.

displeasant

English

Alternative forms

* displeasaunt (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unpleasant, disagreeable.
  • * 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 383:
  • *:‘She suffers spasms, torsions and trances. It sounds most displeasant .’

    • displeasantness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being displeasant.