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Pleasure

noun

A fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience. Synonym: pleasance. Antonym: pain.

Something or someone that provides a source of happiness. Synonyms: delight, joy. "The pleasure of his company" , "The new car is a delight"

A formal expression.

An activity that affords enjoyment.

Sexual gratification.

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"Pleasure" Quotes from Famous Books

... who take an interest in this subject, I have great pleasure in recommending a perusal of "Servian Popular Poetry," (London, 1827,) translated by Dr. Bowring; but the introductory matter, having been written nearly twenty years ago, is, of course, far from being abreast of the present state of information on the subjects ...

— Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family • Andrew Archibald Paton

... marvelled at than a stake in a fence. Foreign oaths were the nails with which he held his talk together, yet I doubt not they were a curiosity gathered at sea, like his chains of shells, more for his own pleasure than for others' pain. His friends gave them no weight, and when he wanted to talk emphatically he kept them back, though they were then as troublesome to him as eggs to the bird-nesting boy who has to speak with his spoil in ...

— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie

... Bay of Stromness which was full of ships of all sizes, of schooners, and of little skiffs painted a light green colour like the pleasure ...

— An Orkney Maid • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... He had the certain pleasure of authentication and he was not the monopoly of having everything. He was not parsimonious and he was ...

— Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein - With Two Shorter Stories • Gertrude Stein

... by urging her to over-exert herself now. So the good man, putting his annoyance in his pocket, joined the group, much to the anger of Julien. Julien did not care for the doctor's jokes, and disliked his engaging Estelle's attention, and plaguing her with compliments. As he had promised himself the pleasure of meeting Estelle next day at the fete, he was not sorry that Jack's return ...

— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various

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