pleasure meaning
EN
[ˈplɛʒə] [ˈplɛʒɚ] [-ɛʒə(r)] 
US WPleasure
- Pleasure describes the broad class of mental states that humans and other animals experience as positive, enjoyable, or worth seeking. It includes more specific mental states such as happiness, entertainment, enjoyment, ecstasy, and euphoria.
- The experience of pleasure is subjective and different individuals will experience different kinds and amounts of pleasure in the same situation.
- In recent years, significant progress has been made in understanding the brain mechanisms underlying pleasure. One of the key discoveries was made by Kent C. Berridge who has shown that pleasure is not a unitary experience.
- NounPLpleasuresSUF-ure
- NU A state of being pleased.
- He remembered with pleasure his home and family.
- I get a lot of pleasure from watching others work hard while I relax.
- NC A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.
- It was a pleasure to meet you.
- Having a good night's sleep is one of life's little pleasures.
- NU One's preference.
- What is your pleasure: coffee or tea?
- (formal) NU The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.
- to hold an office at pleasure: to hold it indefinitely until it is revoked
- to be imprisoned at Her Majesty's pleasure: to be imprisoned indefinitely
- at Congress's pleasure: whenever or as long as Congress desires
- NU A state of being pleased.
- VerbSGpleasuresPRpleasuringPT, PPpleasured
- Interjection
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Is it wrong to take pleasure in other people's misfortunes?
- This was a pleasure of no small kind; and in stepping foot again upon the soil of that country, which contains much that I prize, and more that I admire
- take a dislike ; to take pleasure in his opponent's death
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The murderer was imprisoned at Her Majesty's pleasure.
- If you are not Hungarian, you might mistake langos for a small underfurnished pizza and bypass it in search of more ample pleasures.
- Ammosexuals are very protective of their fetish, and attack even the slightest gun safety measure on the grounds that they interfere with their pleasure.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of pleasure in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Interjections
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Interjections
- en pleasures
- en pleasurer
- en pleasured
- en pleasurest
- en pleasureth
Source: Wiktionary
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Grammatically, this word "pleasure" is an interjection. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.