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Pleasance vs Pleasantness - What's the difference?

pleasance | pleasantness |

As nouns the difference between pleasance and pleasantness

is that pleasance is a pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden while pleasantness is the state or quality of being pleasant.

As a proper noun Pleasance

is {{given name|female|from=French}}.

pleasance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) A pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden.
    • The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses. — Ruskin.
  • (obsolete) pleasure
    • (Chaucer)
    (Shakespeare)
    (Tennyson)

    pleasantness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being pleasant.
  • (countable) Something pleasant.
  • * 1813 , Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalypse, or, Book of revelations, explained
    • ...to destroy the affections of truth, and thereby the pleasantnesses and happinesses of heaven...

    Antonyms

    * unpleasantness