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Pleasance

Pleasance Meaning & Definition
Pleasance Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pleasance?

[n] a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure"
[n] a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pleasance: pleasure

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | comfort | delectation | delight | enjoyment | feeling | pleasantness | retreat | sexual pleasure

Pleasance In Webster's Dictionary

\Pleas"ance\, n. [F. plaisance. See {Please}.] 1. Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. [Archaic] --Shak. ``Full great pleasance.'' --Chaucer. ``A realm of pleasance.'' --Tennyson. 2. A secluded part of a garden. [Archaic] The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses. --Ruskin.

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