different between pleasance vs pleasantness

English

Etymology

Old French plaisance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?z?ns/

Noun

pleasance (countable and uncountable, plural pleasances)

1. (obsolete) Willingness to please, or the action of pleasing; courtesy. [14th-17th c.]
2. (obsolete) The feeling of being pleased; pleasure, delight. [14th-19th c.]
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, in Francis J Child (editor), The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:

     Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce.

3. Grounds laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden. [from 16th c.]
   • 1859, John Ruskin, The Two Paths

     the pleasances of old Elizabethan houses

   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 6:

     It is a tropical pleasance, washed by a noble river.

English

Etymology

pleasant +? -ness

Noun

pleasantness (usually uncountable, plural pleasantnesses)

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being pleasant.
   • 1929, Robert Mackintosh, Values, a Bird's Eye Survey (page 40)

     If this is sound, the pleasantness of pleasure can no longer be our guide; the higherness of the higher pleasure must have the decisive word — hedonism has committed suicide.

2. (countable) Something pleasant.

Synonyms

• (pleasant demeanor): agreeableness, amiability, douceur, sweetness

Antonyms

• unpleasantness

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