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Definition of Pleasure

Pleasure The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or satisfying; -- opposed to pain, sorrow, etc. Amusement; sport; diversion; self-indulgence; frivolous or dissipating enjoyment; hence, sensual gratification; -- opposed to labor, service, duty, self-denial, etc. What the will dictates or prefers as gratifying or satisfying; hence, will; choice; wish; purpose. That which pleases; a favor; a gratification. To give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify. To take pleasure; to seek pursue pleasure; as, to go pleasuring. Related Definitions: Afford, Agreeable, Amusement, As, By, Choice, Delightful, Dissipating, Diversion, Duty, Enjoyment, Excitement, Expectation, Favor, Frivolous, Give, Go, Good, Gratification, Gratify, Gratifying, Happiness, Hence, Labor, Mind, Of, Opposed, Or, Pain, Please, Pleasure, Pleasuring, Produced, Purpose, Pursue, Relish, Satisfying, Seek, Self-Denial, Self-Indulgence, Sensual, Service, Something, Sorrow, Sport, Take, That, The, To, What, Which, Will, Wish

Pleasure Quotations Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. Joseph Addison I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. Clarence Darrow God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. Eric Liddell Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Abraham Lincoln But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do. Piers Anthony

Pleasure Translations pleasure in Afrikaans is genot, plesier pleasure in Dutch is pret, plezier, vermaak, genoegen pleasure in Finnish is huvi pleasure in French is jouissance, plaisir pleasure in Latin is delectatio, iucunditas, voluptas pleasure in Portuguese is prazer pleasure in Spanish is agradar, disfrute, agrado, delicia, placer

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