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Definition of Pleasurability
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleasurability
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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