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Pleasurable vs Pleasantness - What's the difference?

pleasurable | pleasantness |

As an adjective pleasurable

is that gives pleasure.

As a noun pleasantness is

(uncountable) the state or quality of being pleasant.

pleasurable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • that gives pleasure

    • Synonyms

    * (giving pleasure) nice, pleasant, pleasing

    Derived terms

    * pleasurability * pleasurableness * pleasurably * unpleasurable

    Related terms

    * pleasure * please

    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