Construction loans are typically short term with a maximum of one year, and have variable rates that move up and down with the prime rate. The rates on this type of loan are higher than rates on permanent mortgage loans.
pleasantness - the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling. pleasure, pleasance - a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; he was tingling with pleasure.
For the Japanese band, see Loudness (band). Loudness is the characteristic of a sound that is primarily a psycho-physiological correlate of physical strength (amplitude). More formally, it is defined as that attribute of auditory sensation in terms of which sounds can be ordered on a scale extending from quiet to loud.