Definition of Pleasurableness

1. Noun. The characteristic of being pleasurable. ¹

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Definition of Pleasurableness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleasurableness

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

Literary usage of Pleasurableness

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

1. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"QUESTION CXLV. OF PROPRIETY. ARTICLE III.—Does propriety differ from utility and pleasurableness ? R. Propriety is found in the same subject with utility ..."

2. Aquinas Ethicus, Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas: Or, The Moral by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"R. Propriety is found in the same subject with utility and pleasurableness, but differs from them in the way we look at things. ..."

3. Essays on the Philosophy of Theism by William George Ward (1884)
"My " absolute " end * of action must in every case, by the very necessity of my mental constitution, be either virtuousness, or pleasurableness, or the two ..."

4. The Theory of Ethics by Arthur Kenyon Rogers (1922)
"But now if the two words—pleasurableness, we will say, and goodness—are synonyms, ... But if pleasurableness signifies the same thing as goodness, ..."

5. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"QUESTION CXLV. OF PROPRIETY. ARTICLE III.—Does propriety differ from utility and pleasurableness ? R. Propriety is found in the same subject with utility ..."

6. Aquinas Ethicus, Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas: Or, The Moral by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"R. Propriety is found in the same subject with utility and pleasurableness, but differs from them in the way we look at things. ..."

7. Essays on the Philosophy of Theism by William George Ward (1884)
"My " absolute " end * of action must in every case, by the very necessity of my mental constitution, be either virtuousness, or pleasurableness, or the two ..."

8. The Theory of Ethics by Arthur Kenyon Rogers (1922)
"But now if the two words—pleasurableness, we will say, and goodness—are synonyms, ... But if pleasurableness signifies the same thing as goodness, ..."

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