Collocations with 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
great pleasure
It should also be said immediately that the book gives great pleasure: it is elegant, beautifully written, erudite and morally concerned.
guilty pleasure
To her, the increasingly guilty pleasure she took in retreating into her own imaginary world and characters was a form of false worship.
immense pleasure
Older dancers readily and repeatedly expressed their enjoyment of dancing, and at some venues the immense pleasure was immediately visible to an observer.
pleasure seeker
On the other hand, a state has objective value if it involves or causes the wellbeing or flourishing of that person, not qua pleasure seeker, but qua human being.
pure pleasure
Individuals desire some news just for its entertainment value, the pure pleasure associated with knowledge.
sensory pleasure
His pen made mathematics a sensory pleasure for all to pursue regardless of their ability to plot the parabolic path a particular curve might take.
sensual pleasure
Obviously, gaining more sensual pleasure when one already has plenty may sometimes interfere with the pursuit of other goods.
sheer pleasure
Reading these writers one can wonder at times whether there is any reason for their sharing of these elaborate descriptions beyond the sheer pleasure of imagination.
simple pleasure
Yet even his readings of plays show some signs of a motive beyond simple pleasure.
visual pleasure
But only to a point: the balance is heavily weighed in favour of illustrations and visual pleasure, often at the expense of descriptions.
worldly pleasure
They are supposed to express a monastic denial of worldly pleasure and richness.
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