Definition of Pleasurability

1. Noun. The quality or state of being pleasurable. ¹

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Definition of Pleasurability

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleasurability

pleased
pleased as Punch
pleased to meet you
pleasedly
pleasedness
pleaser
pleasers
pleases
pleasest
pleaseth
pleasing
pleasingly
pleasingness
pleasingnesses
pleasings
pleasurability (current term)
pleasurable
pleasurableness
pleasurably
pleasure-boat
pleasure-pain principle
pleasure-unpleasure principle
pleasure boat
pleasure craft
pleasure dome
pleasure domes
pleasure ground
pleasure principle
pleasure seeker

Literary usage of Pleasurability

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Harvard Psychological Studies by Harvard Psychological Laboratory (1915)
"... unpleasantness for the same experiments, another set of correlations can be obtained. We have determined the pleasurability and ..."

2. Mathematical Psychics: An Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the by Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1881)
"Then it must be preferred in virtue of some difference of pleasurability ... But, if one of the increments exceeds the other in pleasurability, ..."

3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1898)
"This of course merely throws the problem further back, and we have yet to inquire as to the nature and rationale of play activity and its pleasurability. ..."

4. The Yoga-system of Patañjali: Or, The Ancient Hindu Doctrine of by Patañjali, Vyāsa, Vācaspatimiśra (1914)
"... [is the transforming cause] ; if it has the quality of painfulness, hatred [is the transforming cause] ; if it has the quality of pleasurability, ..."

5. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"Mr. Mill has tried to disguise the distinction between the dignity of various parts of our nature, apart from their pleasurability, under the form of a mere ..."

6. Memoirs of Doctor Burney by Fanny Burney (1832)
"... that was almost awful; and that had set him to pondering upon the egregious loss of time and pleasurability that hung upon all formalities in making new ..."

7. The European Tour by Grant Allen (1899)
"The value of works of art is thus vastly enhanced, and their intellectual pleasurability almost doubled by seeing them in the surroundings which originally ..."

8. Harvard Psychological Studies by Harvard Psychological Laboratory (1915)
"... unpleasantness for the same experiments, another set of correlations can be obtained. We have determined the pleasurability and ..."

9. Mathematical Psychics: An Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the by Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1881)
"Then it must be preferred in virtue of some difference of pleasurability ... But, if one of the increments exceeds the other in pleasurability, ..."

10. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1898)
"This of course merely throws the problem further back, and we have yet to inquire as to the nature and rationale of play activity and its pleasurability. ..."

11. The Yoga-system of Patañjali: Or, The Ancient Hindu Doctrine of by Patañjali, Vyāsa, Vācaspatimiśra (1914)
"... [is the transforming cause] ; if it has the quality of painfulness, hatred [is the transforming cause] ; if it has the quality of pleasurability, ..."

12. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"Mr. Mill has tried to disguise the distinction between the dignity of various parts of our nature, apart from their pleasurability, under the form of a mere ..."

13. Memoirs of Doctor Burney by Fanny Burney (1832)
"... that was almost awful; and that had set him to pondering upon the egregious loss of time and pleasurability that hung upon all formalities in making new ..."

14. The European Tour by Grant Allen (1899)
"The value of works of art is thus vastly enhanced, and their intellectual pleasurability almost doubled by seeing them in the surroundings which originally ..."

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