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pleasure | American Dictionary

pleasure
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈpleʒ·ər/
a feeling of enjoyment or satisfaction, or something that produces this feeling:
[ U ]The boy’s visits gave his grandparents a great deal of pleasure.
[ Cusually sing ]It’s always a pleasure to see you.

Examples of pleasure

pleasure
I learnt much from them as a young practitioner and still re-read them purely for pleasure.
It is purely agricultural; agricultural in its produce, agricultural in its poor, and agricultural in its pleasures.
This is why we watch other people suffering with pleasure.
But perhaps they experience a certain perverse sense of satisfaction, a distorted sort of pleasure.
It provides her with the opportunity to create a place in which a listener can take pleasure in simply being.
It is excellently edited and printed and a pleasure to handle.
The father expressed feelings of pleasure in seeing his wife relax and his children enjoying participating in the music.
It should also be said immediately that the book gives great pleasure: it is elegant, beautifully written, erudite and morally concerned.
Now between the faculties of knowledge and desire stands the feeling of pleasure, just as judgement is intermediate between understanding and reason.
They are more often about social interaction, physical pleasure, affirming faith, fulfilling roles and expressing culture.
Besides the pleasure and pride derived from parades, conference sessions gave delegates the opportunity to share ideas and to further linkages between communities.
Lavatories made various destinations more hospitable to those either traversing the city for work or traversing the nation for pleasure.
That our findings should suggest this dysregulated affective response for the exuberant child, who is characterized by high intensity pleasure, is intriguing.
The pleasure she derived from imaginative creation and writing, and her fears about that pleasure, influenced her ideas about idolatry.
So the men do not get real pleasure out of life, and in the end they meet a fearful death.
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Collocations withpleasure

pleasure

These are words often used in combination with pleasure.

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aesthetic pleasure
There are many things we value highly, like companionship, aesthetic pleasure, love, and other such benefits to which we do not necessarily have a right.
bodily pleasure
Rock, therefore, was music for people with a mind as well as a body - people who politicised bodily pleasure.
genuine pleasure
It has been a genuine pleasure to work with you.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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