pleasure
Pleasure means the state of being pleased, delighted or gratified.
(noun)An example of pleasure is enjoying reading books.
Pleasure is defined as to please or gratify someone.
(verb)An example of pleasure is to cook someone a very special meal.
See pleasure in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a pleased feeling; enjoyment; delight; satisfaction
- one's wish, will, or choice: what is your pleasure?
- a thing that gives delight or satisfaction
- gratification of the senses; sensual satisfaction
- amusement; fun
Origin: ME, altered < plesir < MFr plaiser, orig. inf.: see please
transitive verb pleasured, pleasuring
- to give pleasure to, now specif., sexually
- to have sexual intercourse with
intransitive verb
Related Forms:
- pleasureful adjective
See pleasure in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- The state or feeling of being pleased or gratified.
- A source of enjoyment or delight: The graceful skaters were a pleasure to watch.
- Amusement, diversion, or worldly enjoyment: “Pleasure . . . is a safer guide than either right or duty” (Samuel Butler).
- Sensual gratification or indulgence.
- One's preference or wish: What is your pleasure?
- To take pleasure; delight: The hiker paused, pleasuring in the sounds of the forest.
- To go in search of pleasure or enjoyment.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old French plaisir
Origin: , from plaisir, to please; see please
.Related Forms:
- pleasˈure·less adjective
See pleasure in Ologies
Pleasure
See also happiness; recreation
amenomania
a mania for pleasing delusions.
1. the cultivation of a refined taste, as in food, art, music, etc.; connoisseurship.
2. a devotion or adaptation to luxurious tastes, especially in drinking and eating, or to indulgence in sensual pleasures. —epicure, n. —epicurean, n., adj.
excursionism
the characteristics of a pleasure trip. —excursionist, n. —excursional, adj.
hedonology.
1. Ethics. the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good. See also epicurism.
2. a devotion to pleasure as a way of life. —hedonist, n. —hedonistic, adj.
hedonology
Rare. the study of human pleasure. Also called hedonics.
hedonomania
a mania for pleasure.
pleasurist
Rare. a person devoted to worldly pleasure; hedonist or sybarite.
a form of conduct conforming to the precepts of the Stoics, especially as characterized by indifference to pain and pleasure. —stoic, n., adj. —stoical, adj.
devotion to sensual pleasures. —sybarite, n. —sybaritic, adj.
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