pleasure
Roget category 827
6. Words relating to the sentient and moral› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.1. Passive affections
#827.
Pleasure
noun
pleasure,
gratification,
enjoyment,
fruition —
oblectation,
delectation,
delection† —
relish,
zest —
gusto
etc.
(physical pleasure)
377 —
satisfaction
etc.
(content)
831 —
complacency.
well-being —
good
etc.
618 —
snugness,
comfort,
ease —
cushion
etc.
215 —
sans souci [Fr.],
without worry,
mind at ease.
joy,
gladness,
delight,
glee,
cheer,
sunshine —
cheerfulness
etc.
836.
treat,
refreshment —
amusement
etc.
840 —
luxury
etc.
377.
mens sana in corpore sano [Lat.]
[Juvenal],
a sound mind in a sound body.
happiness,
felicity,
bliss —
beatitude,
beautification —
enchantment,
transport,
rapture,
ravishment,
ecstasy —
summum bonum [Lat.] —
paradise,
elysium
etc.
(heaven)
981 —
third heaven†,
seventh heaven,
cloud nine —
unalloyed happiness
&c. —
hedonics†,
hedonism.
honeymoon —
palmy days,
halcyon days —
golden age,
golden time —
Dixie,
Dixie's land —
Saturnia regna [Lat.],
Arcadia†,
Shangri-La,
happy valley,
Agapemone†.
verb
be pleased
etc.
829 —
feel pleasure,
experience pleasure
etc.
n. —
joy —
enjoy oneself,
hug oneself —
be in clover
etc.
377,
be in elysium
etc.
981 —
tread on enchanted ground —
fall into raptures,
go into raptures.
feel at home,
breathe freely,
bask in the sunshine.
be pleased with
etc.
829 —
receive pleasure,
derive pleasure
etc.
n..
from —
take pleasure
etc.
n..
in —
delight in,
rejoice in,
indulge in,
luxuriate in —
gloat over
etc.
(physical pleasure)
377 —
enjoy,
relish,
like —
love
etc.
897 —
take to,
take a fancy to —
have a liking for —
enter into the spirit of.
take in good part.
treat oneself to,
solace oneself with.
adjective
pleased
etc.
829 —
not sorry —
glad,
gladsome —
pleased as Punch.
happy,
blest,
blessed,
blissful,
beatified —
happy as a clam at high water [U.S.],
happy as a clam,
happy as a king,
happy as the day is long —
thrice happy,
ter quaterque beatus [Lat.] —
enjoying
etc.
v. —
joyful
etc.
(in spirits)
836 —
hedonic†.
in a blissful state,
in paradise
etc.
981,
in raptures,
in ecstasies,
in a transport of delight.
comfortable
etc.
(physical pleasure)
377 —
at ease —
content
etc.
831 —
sans souci [Fr.].
overjoyed,
entranced,
enchanted —
enraptures —
enravished† —
transported —
fascinated,
captivated.
with a joyful face,
with sparkling eyes.
pleasing
etc.
829 —
ecstatic,
beatic† —
painless,
unalloyed,
without alloy,
cloudless.
adverb
happily
etc.
adj. —
with pleasure
etc.
(willingfully)
602† —
with glee
etc.
n..
phrase
one's heart leaping with joy.
a wilderness of sweets"
[Paradise Lost];
I wish you all the joy that you can wish"
[M. of Venice];
jour de ma vie —
joy ruled the day and love the night"
[Dryden];
joys season'd high and tasting strong of joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt"
[Young];
oh happiness, our being's end and aim! "
[Pope];
there is a pleasure that is born of pain"
[O Meridith];
throned on highest bliss"
[Paradise Lost];
vedi Napoli e poi muori [It] —
zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke nicht zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke nicht weit [G.],
the bridge between joy and sorrow is not wide.
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