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[syn: pleasure, pleasance]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pleasance \Pleas"ance\, n. [F. plaisance. See Please.]
1. Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. [Archaic]
--Shak. "Full great pleasance." --Chaucer. "A realm of
pleasance." --Tennyson.
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2. A secluded part of a garden. [Archaic]
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The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses. --Ruskin.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pleasance
n 1: a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached
to a mansion
2: a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people
desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure" [syn:
pleasure, pleasance] [ant: pain, painfulness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "pleasance":
affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability,
amicability, bliss, blissfulness, common, commons, compatibility,
complaisance, congeniality, cordiality, enjoyableness,
felicitousness, geniality, goodliness, goodness, graciousness,
gratefulness, harmoniousness, mellifluousness, mellowness,
niceness, paradise, park, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness,
pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasure garden,
pleasure ground, pleasurefulness, public park, rapport, sweetness,
sweetness and light, welcomeness