Meaning of PLEASANCE
| Pronunciation: | | 'plezuns
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- [n] a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure"
- [n] a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion
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| | Synonyms: | | pleasure |
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| | Antonyms: | | pain, painfulness | | |
| | See Also: | | comfort, delectation, delight, enjoyment, feeling, pleasantness, retreat, sexual pleasure | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pleas"ance\, n. [F. plaisance. See {Please}.]
1. Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. [Archaic]
--Shak. ``Full great pleasance.'' --Chaucer. ``A realm of
pleasance.'' --Tennyson.
2. A secluded part of a garden. [Archaic]
The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses. --Ruskin.
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| | Related Terms: | | affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, amicability, bliss, blissfulness, common, commons, compatibility, complaisance, congeniality, cordiality, enjoyableness, felicitousness, geniality, goodliness, goodness, graciousness, gratefulness, harmoniousness, mellifluousness, mellowness, niceness, paradise, park, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasure garden, pleasure ground, pleasurefulness, public park, rapport, sweetness, sweetness and light, welcomeness |
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