[Capability of giving pleasure;
cause or source of pleasure.] Pleasurableness.
Noun: pleasurableness, pleasantness, agreeableness adj.;
pleasure giving, jucundity, delectability; amusement
. attraction
(motive) ; attractiveness, attractability; invitingness
adj.; harm, fascination, enchantment, witchery, seduction, winning ways,
amenity, amiability; winsomeness. loveliness (beauty) ;
sunny side, bright side; sweets (sugar) ; goodness ; manna in the
wilderness, land flowing with milk
and honey; bittersweet; fair weather.
treat; regale (physical pleasure)
; dainty; titbit, tidbit; nuts,
sauce piquante.
Verb: cause pleasure, produce pleasure, create pleasure, give
pleasure, afford pleasure, procure
pleasure, offer pleasure, present pleasure, yield pleasure
. please, charm, delight, becharm,
imparadise; gladden (make cheerful) ; take, captivate,
fascinate; enchant, entrance, enrapture,
transport, bewitch; enravish.
bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire; &c. 865; slake,
satiate, quench; indulge, humor,
flatter, tickle; tickle the palate (savory) ; regale,
refresh; enliven; treat; amuse ; take one's
fancy, tickle one's fancy, hit
one's fancy; meet one's wishes; win the heart, gladden the heart, rejoice the heart, warm the cockles of
the heart; do one's heart
good. attract, allure (move) ; stimulate (excite) ;
interest. make things pleasant,
popularize, gild the pill, sweeten.
Adjective: causing pleasure v.; laetificant;
pleasure-giving, pleasing,
pleasant, pleasurable; agreeable; grateful, gratifying; leef|,
lief, acceptable; welcome, welcome
as the roses in May; welcomed; favorite; to one's taste, to one's mind, to one's liking; satisfactory (good) . refreshing; comfortable; cordial;
genial; glad, gladsome; sweet,
delectable, nice, dainty; delicate, delicious; dulcet; luscious ; palatable ; luxurious,
voluptuous; sensual . attractive ; inviting,
prepossessing, engaging; winning,
winsome; taking, fascinating, captivating, killing; seducing,
seductive; heart-robbing,
alluring, enticing; appetizing
(exciting) ; cheering ; bewitching;
enchanting, entrancing, enravishing.
charming; delightful, felicitous, exquisite; lovely (beautiful) ;
ravishing, rapturous; heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic; beatic; beatific; seraphic; empyrean; elysian (heavenly) . palmy, halcyon, Saturnian.
Phrase: decies repetita
placebit; "charms strike the sight but merit wins the soul" [Pope]; "sweetness
and light" [Swift].