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Definition of Pleasurable
1. Adjective. Affording satisfaction or pleasure. "Good printing makes a book more pleasurable to read"
Definition of Pleasurable
1. a. Capable of affording pleasure or satisfaction; gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry.
Definition of Pleasurable
1. Adjective. that gives pleasure ¹
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Definition of Pleasurable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleasurable
Literary usage of Pleasurable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind by James Mill (1869)
"IDEAS OP THE Pleasurable AND PAINFUL SENSATIONS, AND OF THE CAUSES OF THEM.
WE have already seen, that all sensations are capable of being revived, ..."
2. Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote (1888)
"What ! do you concur with the generality of Debate. people in calling some
pleasurable things evil, and some painful things good? Prot. ..."
3. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Charles Hubbard Judd (1897)
"We are never to forget here that pleasurable and unpleasurable, exciting and
depressing, ... Again, the direction of pleasurable and unpleasurable feelings, ..."
4. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1821)
"Money is first an object of pleasurable feeling, merely as a means of procuring;
other things which are regarded as objects of desire. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... hence it is that some musical compositions become tiresome much sooner than
others in which the mind continues to discover some new pleasurable element. ..."
6. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1879)
"F .' pleasurable or of pain, may be termed an ... cause : if of pleasure, a
pleasurable cause: if of pain, a painful, afflictive, ..."
7. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1870)
"We have, in discussing these senses, classified and enumerated their sensations,
affirming the intrinsically pleasurable character of a large part of them ..."
8. Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind by James Mill (1869)
"IDEAS OP THE Pleasurable AND PAINFUL SENSATIONS, AND OF THE CAUSES OF THEM.
WE have already seen, that all sensations are capable of being revived, ..."
9. Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote (1888)
"What ! do you concur with the generality of Debate. people in calling some
pleasurable things evil, and some painful things good? Prot. ..."
10. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Charles Hubbard Judd (1897)
"We are never to forget here that pleasurable and unpleasurable, exciting and
depressing, ... Again, the direction of pleasurable and unpleasurable feelings, ..."
11. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1821)
"Money is first an object of pleasurable feeling, merely as a means of procuring;
other things which are regarded as objects of desire. ..."
12. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... hence it is that some musical compositions become tiresome much sooner than
others in which the mind continues to discover some new pleasurable element. ..."
13. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1879)
"F .' pleasurable or of pain, may be termed an ... cause : if of pleasure, a
pleasurable cause: if of pain, a painful, afflictive, ..."
14. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1870)
"We have, in discussing these senses, classified and enumerated their sensations,
affirming the intrinsically pleasurable character of a large part of them ..."
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