Classes Sentient and Moral Powers Personal Affections Passive Affections Pleasure
Pleasure
Nouns
pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition
oblectation, delectation, delection
relish, zest
gusto etc. (physical pleasure) Physical Pleasure
satisfaction etc. (content) Content
complacency. well-being
good etc. Good
snugness, comfort, ease
cushion etc. Support
without worry, mind at ease. joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine
cheerfulness etc. Cheerfulness . treat, refreshment
amusement etc. Amusement
a sound mind in a sound body. happiness, felicity, bliss
beatitude, beautification
enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy
paradise, elysium etc. (heaven) Heaven
third heaven, seventh heaven, cloud nine
unalloyed happiness etc.
hedonics, hedonism. honeymoon
palmy days, halcyon days
golden age, golden time
Dixie, Dixie's land
Arcadia, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone.
Verbs
be pleased etc. [Capability of giving pleasure; cause or source of pleasure.] Pleasurableness
feel pleasure, experience pleasure etc. n.
joy
enjoy oneself, hug oneself
be in clover etc. Physical Pleasure , be in elysium etc. Heaven
tread on enchanted ground
fall into raptures, go into raptures. feel at home, breathe freely, bask in the sunshine. be pleased with etc. [Capability of giving pleasure; cause or source of pleasure.] Pleasurableness
receive pleasure, derive pleasure etc. n.. from
take pleasure etc. n.. in
delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in
gloat over etc. (physical pleasure) Physical Pleasure
enjoy, relish, like
love etc. Love
take to, take a fancy to
have a liking for
enter into the spirit of. take in good part. treat oneself to, solace oneself with.
Adjectives
pleased etc. [Capability of giving pleasure; cause or source of pleasure.] Pleasurableness
not sorry
glad, gladsome
pleased as Punch. happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified
happy as a clam at high water [U.S.] , happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long
thrice happy
enjoying etc. v.
joyful etc. (in spirits) Cheerfulness
hedonic. in a blissful state, in paradise etc. Heaven , in raptures, in ecstasies, in a transport of delight. comfortable etc. (physical pleasure) Physical Pleasure
at ease
content etc. Content
entranced, enchanted
enraptures
enravished
transported
fascinated, captivated. with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes. pleasing etc. [Capability of giving pleasure; cause or source of pleasure.] Pleasurableness
ecstatic, beatic
painless, unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless.
Adverbs
happily etc. adj.
with pleasure etc. (willingfully) Willingness
with glee etc. n..
Phrases
one's heart leaping with joy. a wilderness of sweets" [Paradise Lost]
I wish you all the joy that you can wish" [M. of Venice]
jour de ma vie
joy ruled the day and love the night" [Dryden]
joys season'd high and tasting strong of joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt" [Young]
oh happiness, our being's end and aim! " [Pope]
there is a pleasure that is born of pain" [O Meridith]
throned on highest bliss" [Paradise Lost]
the bridge between joy and sorrow is not wide.