PLEASANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pleasance mean? 

• PLEASANCE (noun)
  The noun PLEASANCE has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: PLEASANCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLEASANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("pleasance" is a kind of...):

retreat (a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

pleasance; pleasure

Context example:

he was tingling with pleasure

Hypernyms ("pleasance" is a kind of...):

feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pleasance"):

delectation; delight (a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction)

enjoyment (the pleasure felt when having a good time)

pleasantness (the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling)

comfort (a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment)

sexual pleasure (pleasure derived from sexual activities)

Derivation:

pleasant (affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings)

 Context examples 

They seem very gallant ships, and I trust that we shall have much pleasance from our meeting with them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)