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• n  the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling
• n  the quality of giving pleasure
  the pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day

• Nobody is better than Quaid at playing pleasantness under pressure; he succumbs neither to frustration nor to frenzy.
• But pleasantness was not the idea.
• The pleasantness or unpleasantness of an odor is mostly a matter of psychological conditioning.

• sweetness

• unpleasantness

News & Articles

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• Apple's latest ad: Not enough crazy?
  A new ad presented at Monday's WWDC exuded warmth and pleasantness. But did it also show how much revolution Apple has left behind? Originally posted at Technically Incorrect
  June 11, 2013 - CNET

Quotes

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• Jamie Moyer in MLB.com
  I just think he was real,Moyer said. "What you saw every day, who he was -- well, he was real. There was always a pleasantness about him. There was no underlying motive. He was real. There were no barriers."
• Joe Pantalone in Toronto Star
  Hopefully, there will be more courtesy and more pleasantness because people won't be as frustrated,Pantalone said. "We live by hope."
• Newt Gingrich in Washington Post
  Nobody should underestimate that beneath his pleasantness, his controlled manner, his passion for golf, underneath that, there is a passionate competitor,Gingrich said.