pleasingness

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Noun
  • Modern media is saturated with messages that treat love as something measured in terms of chemistry and desirability.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • To top the list, a place must earn high scores in criteria such as affordability, desirability, and quality of life, which encompass factors like healthcare, infrastructure, and education.
    Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 21 May 2026
Noun
  • Distilled spirits, such as brandy, are added to these wines to raise the alcohol content as well as the sweetness.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 29 May 2026
  • The sweetness of the Deborah-Ava relationship eventually became a nice blanket in which Hacks swaddled its viewers, its cozy intent pervading not just the narrative but just about every other aspect of the show.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • The experiment consisted of examining human traits such as extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness, empathy, etc.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Sycophancy is largely the result of a machine learning technique called reinforcement learning from human feedback, an incentive structure that encourages excessive agreeableness in models.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • The researchers found that people's accuracy in distinguishing sugar from sweetener depended heavily on expectations, and pleasantness ratings also shifted accordingly.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Surely there was something more beneath all this mild pleasantness, some edge of resentment, a few shards of indignation on the brink of cutting through.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The shift is in how niceness is defined.
    Kelly Ehlers, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Others offered to pick her up a Friday fish fry – Midwest niceness at its finest.
    Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The family is now living off-planet with a robotic assistant, in a scene inspired by Disney Legend and Imagineer John Hench, who helped create the original attraction.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • This can include easier jobs, like fresh paint jobs on facades and park clean-ups overnight, or more intense projects like refreshing and reimagining attractions.
    Megan duBois, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • The Austrian artist Valie Export, who died last week, at the age of eighty-five, saw the female body as a site of both seduction and opposition.
    Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 23 May 2026
  • In a world that often feels increasingly bleak and politically exhausted, there’s comfort in leaning into softness, seduction, and fantasy, and in letting your wardrobe reflect that desire too.
    Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
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“Pleasingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleasingness. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.

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