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pleasure
Overview of noun pleasure
The noun pleasure has 5 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (21) pleasure, pleasance -- (a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure")
2. (4) joy, delight, pleasure -- (something or someone that provides pleasure; a source of happiness; "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight")
3. pleasure -- (a formal expression; "he serves at the pleasure of the President")
4. pleasure -- (an activity that affords enjoyment; "he puts duty before pleasure")
5. pleasure -- (sexual gratification; "he took his pleasure of her")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pleasure
5 senses of pleasure
Sense 1
pleasure, pleasance
=> feeling
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
joy, delight, pleasure
=> positive stimulus
=> stimulation, stimulus, stimulant, input
=> information
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
pleasure
=> choice, pick, selection
=> decision making, deciding
=> higher cognitive process
=> process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
pleasure
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
pleasure
=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun pleasure
2 of 5 senses of pleasure
Sense 1
pleasure, pleasance
=> delight, delectation
=> enjoyment
=> pleasantness
=> comfort
=> sexual pleasure
Sense 4
pleasure
=> luxuriation
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pleasure
5 senses of pleasure
Sense 1
pleasure, pleasance
=> feeling
Sense 2
joy, delight, pleasure
=> positive stimulus
Sense 3
pleasure
=> choice, pick, selection
Sense 4
pleasure
=> activity
Sense 5
pleasure
=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
Antonyms of noun pleasure
1 of 5 senses of pleasure
Sense 1
pleasure, pleasance
Antonym of pain (Sense 2)
=>pain, painfulness
Member Holonyms of noun pleasure
Substance Holonyms of noun pleasure
Part Holonyms of noun pleasure
Member Meronyms of noun pleasure
Substance Meronyms of noun pleasure
Part Meronyms of noun pleasure
Meronyms of noun pleasure
Holonyms of noun pleasure
Attributes of noun pleasure
Derived Forms of noun pleasure
3 of 5 senses of pleasure
Sense 1
pleasure, pleasance
RELATED TO>(verb) please#1
=> please, delight
Sense 2
joy, delight, pleasure
RELATED TO>(verb) please#1
=> please, delight
Sense 4
pleasure
RELATED TO>(verb) please#2
=> please
RELATED TO>(verb) please#1
=> please, delight
Domain of noun pleasure
Domain Terms of noun pleasure
Familiarity of noun pleasure
pleasure used as a noun is common (polysemy count =5)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun pleasure
5 senses of pleasure
Sense 1
pleasure, pleasance
> feeling
=> affect
=> emotion
=> thing
=> glow
=> faintness
=> soul, soulfulness
=> passion, passionateness
=> sentiment
=> complex
=> ambivalence, ambivalency
=> apathy
=> desire
=> sex, sexual urge
=> pleasure, pleasance
=> pain, painfulness
=> pang, stab, twinge
=> liking
=> dislike
=> gratitude
=> ingratitude, ungratefulness
=> unconcern
=> shame
=> pride, pridefulness
=> humility, humbleness
=> astonishment, amazement
=> devastation
=> expectation
=> levity
=> gravity, solemnity
=> sensitivity, sensitiveness
=> agitation
=> calmness
=> fearlessness, bravery
=> happiness
=> sadness, unhappiness
=> hope
=> despair
=> affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philia
=> temper, mood, humor, humour
=> sympathy, fellow feeling
=> enthusiasm
Sense 2
joy, delight, pleasure
> positive stimulus
=> bonus, fillip
=> joy, delight, pleasure
Sense 3
pleasure
> choice, pick, selection
=> pleasure
=> favorite, favourite
=> way
Sense 4
pleasure
> activity
=> variation, variance
=> space walk
=> domesticity
=> operation
=> operation
=> practice, pattern
=> diversion, recreation
=> cup of tea, bag, dish
=> follow-up, followup
=> game
=> turn, play
=> music
=> acting, playing, playacting, performing
=> liveliness, animation
=> burst, fit
=> work
=> works, deeds
=> service
=> occupation, business, job, line of work, line
=> occupation
=> writing, committal to writing
=> role
=> wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus
=> waste, wastefulness, dissipation
=> attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
=> control
=> protection
=> sensory activity
=> education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity
=> training, preparation, grooming
=> representation
=> creation, creative activity
=> dismantling, dismantlement, disassembly
=> line function, line duty
=> puncture
=> search, hunt, hunting
=> use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise
=> operation, military operation
=> measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration
=> calibration, standardization, standardisation
=> organization, organisation
=> grouping
=> support, supporting
=> continuance, continuation
=> procedure, process
=> ceremony
=> ceremony
=> worship
=> energizing, activating, activation
=> concealment, concealing, hiding
=> placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement
=> provision, supply, supplying
=> demand
=> pleasure
=> enjoyment, delectation
=> lamentation, mourning
=> laughter
=> market, marketplace
=> preparation, readying
=> aid, assist, assistance, help
=> support
=> behavior, behaviour, conduct, doings
=> behavior, behaviour
=> leadership, leading
=> precession, precedence, precedency
=> solo
=> buzz
=> fun
=> sin, hell
=> release, outlet, vent
=> last
=> mystification, obfuscation
=> negotiation
=> perturbation, disturbance
=> timekeeping
Sense 5
pleasure
> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
=> bondage
=> outercourse
=> safe sex
=> conception
=> sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge
=> pleasure
=> sexual love, lovemaking, making love, love, love life
=> carnal abuse
=> coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union
=> reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life
=> foreplay, arousal, stimulation
=> perversion, sexual perversion
=> autoeroticism, autoerotism
=> promiscuity, promiscuousness, sleeping around
=> lechery
=> homosexuality, homosexualism, homoeroticism, queerness, gayness
=> bisexuality
=> heterosexuality, heterosexualism, straightness
=> bestiality, zooerastia, zooerasty
Meronyms of noun pleasure
5 senses of pleasure
Holonyms of noun pleasure
Grep of noun pleasure
displeasure
gold of pleasure
lady of pleasure
pleasure
pleasure-pain principle
pleasure-unpleasure principle
pleasure boat
pleasure craft
pleasure ground
pleasure principle
pleasure seeker
pleasure trip
sexual pleasure
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