| NOUN | feeling | pleasure, pleasance | a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience |
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| cognition | pleasure, joy, delight | something or someone that provides a source of happiness | |
| cognition | pleasure | a formal expression | |
| act | pleasure | an activity that affords enjoyment | |
| act | pleasure | sexual gratification / gratification |
| Sounds | pleh'zher | |
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| Rhymes | arbitrager ... treasure: 21 rhymes with zher... | |
| Meaning | A fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience. | |
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| Example | "he was tingling with pleasure" | |
| Synonym | pleasance | |
| Narrower | comfort | A feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment |
| delight, delectation | A feeling of extreme / extreme pleasure or satisfaction | |
| enjoyment | The pleasure felt when having a good time | |
| pleasantness | The feeling caused by agreeable stimuli | |
| sexual pleasure | pleasure derived from sexual activities | |
| Broader | feeling | The experiencing of affective and emotional states |
| Opposite | pain, painfulness | emotional distress |
| Spanish | goce, placer | |
| Catalan | delit, gaudi, plaer | |
| Verbs | please | give pleasure to or be pleasing to |
| Meaning | Something or someone that provides a source of happiness. | |
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| Example | "the pleasure of his company" | |
| Synonyms | joy, delight | |
| Broader | positive stimulus | A stimulus with desirable consequences |
| Spanish | alegría, deleite, delicia, gozada, gozo, placer | |
| Catalan | alegria, delit, gust, plaer | |
| Verbs | please | give pleasure to or be pleasing to |
| Meaning | A formal expression. | |
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| Example | "he serves at the pleasure of the President" | |
| Broader | choice, pick, selection | The person or thing chosen or selected |
| Spanish | placer, satisfacción | |
| Meaning | An activity that affords enjoyment. | |
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| Example | "he puts duty before pleasure" | |
| Narrower | luxuriation | An activity that affords excessive pleasure and enjoyment |
| Broader | activity | Any specific behavior |
| Spanish | placer | |
| Catalan | plaer | |
| Verbs | please | give pleasure to or be pleasing to |
| please | be the will of or have the will (to) | |
| Meaning | sexual gratification / gratification. | |
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| Example | "he took his pleasure of her" | |
| Broader | sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity | Activities associated with sexual intercourse |
| Spanish | disfrute, goce, gozo, placer | |
| Catalan | plaer | |
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