9 examples of pleasurableness in sentences
" In addition to the characteristics just mentioned should be noted the pleasurableness that usually attends any activity in which we are "interested."
This leads us to recognize the psychological conditions of increased energy, which are, first, the presence of more ideas, second, the more facile flow of ideas; the whole accompanied by a state of marked pleasurableness.
] Pleasurableness N. pleasurableness, pleasantness, agreeableness &c adj.; pleasure giving, jucundity^, delectability; amusement &c 840. attraction &c (motive) 615; attractiveness, attractability^; invitingness &c adj.^; harm, fascination, enchantment, witchery, seduction, winning ways, amenity, amiability;
] Pleasurableness N. pleasurableness, pleasantness, agreeableness &c adj.; pleasure giving, jucundity^, delectability; amusement &c 840. attraction &c (motive) 615; attractiveness, attractability^; invitingness &c adj.^; harm, fascination, enchantment, witchery, seduction, winning ways, amenity, amiability;
pleasurableness &c 829. beautifying; landscaping, landscape gardening; decoration &c 847; calisthenics^.
The difficulty can be removed only on the assumption of a common aesthetic sense, of a corresponding organization of the powers of representation in all men, which yields the common standard for the pleasurableness of the impression.
Since the pleasurableness of the beautiful rests on the fact that it establishes a pleasing harmony between the imagination and the understanding, hence between sensuous and intellectual apprehension, the aesthetic attitude is possible only in sensuous-rational beings.
Examples of free or purely formal beauty are tapestry patterns, arabesques, fountains, flowers, and landscapes, the pleasurableness of which rests simply on the proportion of their form and relations, and not upon their conformity to a presupposed significance and determination of the thing.
We judge of the origin of this love from its delights; for who in any case knows or has known the trace of any love except from its delight and pleasurableness?
