Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being delightful, or of affording great pleasure: as, the delightfulness of a prospect or of scenery; the delightfulness of leisure.
- noun The state of being delighted; great pleasure; delight.
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- noun The state or quality of being
delightful .
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Examples
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Via SeñorGif, whose delightfulness is diminished in cold water.
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Via SeñorGif, whose delightfulness is diminished in cold water.
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What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it.
Objects 1914
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What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it.
Tender Buttons 1914
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What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it.
Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms Gertrude Stein 1910
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All this, when he said it, had a queer kind of delightfulness, and, to those able to understand him, never seemed, as it might have seemed in any one else, mere arrogant bad taste, but a necessary part of a very narrow and very intense nature.
Figures of Several Centuries Arthur Symons 1905
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Any one who has had the privilege to know him, and to enjoy his bright and rich and beautiful mind, will not need to go far to learn where it was that her son George got all of that genius and worth and delightfulness which is transmissible.
Spare Hours John Brown 1846
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And nothing can diminish the delightfulness of this animated GIF.
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And nothing can diminish the delightfulness of this animated GIF.
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Material comfort is non-existent and I envy them because they live without care of material things; just delightfulness for life.
Ann Tran: A Visit To Children of Santa MarÃa's Orphanage Ann Tran 2011
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