PLEASURE

Pleasure

Pleasure describes the broad class of mental states that humans and other animals experience as positive, enjoyable, or worth seeking. It includes more specific mental states such as happiness, entertainment, enjoyment, ecstasy, and euphoria. In psychology, the pleasure principle describes pleasure as a positive feedback mechanism, motivating the organism to recreate in the future the situation which it has just found pleasurable. According to this theory, organisms are similarly motivated to avoid situations that have caused pain in the past.

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pleasure

Noun

  1. A state of being pleased.
  2. A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.
  3. One's preference.
  4. The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.

Verb

  1. To give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify.
  2. to give pleasure (especially sexual pleasure) to
    Johnny pleasured Jackie orally last night.
  3. To take pleasure; to seek or pursue pleasure.
    to go pleasuring

Interjection

  1. pleasure to meet you, pleased to meet you


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