• Albanian: kënaqësi g Albanian
• Arabic:
• Azerbaijani: həzz
• Bengali: নন্দ (anondo)
• Bosnian: zadovoljstvo
• Bulgarian: удоволствие (udovolstvie) , наслада (naslada)
• Chinese: 欢乐 (huān lè)
• Croatian: dobra volja
• Czech: potěšení
• Dutch: genoegen
• Esperanto: plezuro
• Estonian: lõbu
• Finnish: huvi
• French: plaisir
• Georgian: სიამოვნება (siamovneba)
• German: Vergnügen
• Greek: ευχαρίστηση (eucharístēsē) , απόλαυση (apolafsē) , τέρψη (terpse) , ηδονή (hedoné)
• Hebrew: ענג (oneg)
• Hungarian: gyönyörűség
• Indonesian: kesenangan
• Irish: pléisiúr
• Italian: piacere
• Japanese: 喜び (よろこび) (yorokobi)
• Korean: 쾌락 (kwaerak)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: خۆشی

• Latvian: izprieca
• Lithuanian: malonumas g Lithuanian
• Mongolian: баяр жаргал (bajar žargal)
• Norwegian: fornøyelse g Norwegian
• Old English: drēam
• Persian: (kaif)
• Polish: przyjemność
• Portuguese: prazer
• Romanian: plăcere
• Russian: удовольствие (udovól’stvije)
• Serbian: добра воља (dobra volja)
• Slovak: potešenie
• Spanish: placer
• Swahili: anasa (nc 9/10)
• Swedish: behag
• Tagalog: kaaliwan
• Thai: (kwaam bpìt yindee)
• Turkish: zevk
• Ukrainian: задоволення (zadovólennja)
• Vietnamese: niềm vui thích
• Welsh: bodd g Welsh
• Yiddish: פארגענונן (fargenugen) or

• French: plaisir

Verb

1. to give pleasure (especially sexual pleasure) to

   Johnny pleasured Jackie orally last night.

Translations

• German: Vergnügen bereiten

Derived terms

• antipleasure
• at Her Majesty's pleasure, at His Majesty's pleasure
• at one's pleasure, at pleasure
• business before pleasure

• do someone a pleasure
• do someone the pleasure of
• during Her Majesty's pleasure, during His Majesty's pleasure
• during one's pleasure, during pleasure
• end-pleasure
• English pleasure
• fore-pleasure
• gold of pleasure, gold-of-pleasure, gold-pleasure
• it's a pleasure
• lady of pleasure
• man of pleasure
• may I have the pleasure
• my pleasure
• pleasurable
• pleasurance
• pleasure barge
• pleasure boat
• pleasure-carriage
• pleasure center, pleasure centre
• pleasure craft
• pleasure cruise
• pleasure curve
• pleasured
• pleasure dome
• pleasuredrome
• pleasureful
• pleasure-giving
• pleasure ground
• pleasurehood
• pleasure house
• the pleasure is all mine, the pleasure's all mine
• the pleasure is mine, the pleasure's mine
• pleasureless
• pleasure-loving
• pleasurement
• pleasure moment
• pleasuremonger
• pleasure of someone's company
• pleasure-pain principle
• pleasure principle
• pleasurer
• pleasure-seeker
• pleasure-seeking
• pleasures of the flesh
• pleasures of the table
• pleasure steamer
• pleasure trip
• pleasure-unpleasure principle
• pleasuring
• pleasurist
• pleasurous
• sexual pleasure
• to one's pleasure, to pleasure
• unpleasure
• western pleasure
• with pleasure
• woman of pleasure

Related terms

• displeasure
• please

Pleasure is commonly conceptualized as a positive experience, happiness, entertainment, enjoyment, ecstasy, and euphoria. It is the absolute opposite of pain.

People commonly feel this phenomenon through exercise, sexuality, music, usage of drugs, writing, accomplishment, recognition, service, and any other imaginable activity; even pain (known by its medical terminology masochism). It also refers to "enjoyment" related to certain physical, sensual, emotional or mental experience.

Philosophy

Pleasure may also be defined, at least in some contexts, as being the reduction or absence of pain. Epicurus and his followers defined pleasure as the absence of pain.

The 19th Century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer understood pleasure as a negative sensation, as it negates the usual existential condition, that of suffering.

Utilitarianism and New Hedonism philosophies both attempt to increase to the maximum the amount of pleasure and minimize the amount of pain.

Neurology

The pleasure center is the set of brain structures, predominantly the nucleus accumbens, theorized to produce great pleasure when stimulated electrically. Some references state that the septum pellucidium is generally considered to be the pleasure center while others mention the hypothalamus when referring to pleasure center for intracranial stimulation.. Certain chemicals are known to stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain. These include dopamine and various endorphins.

See also

• Felicific calculus, an attempt to calculate pleasure
• Sexual pleasure
• Flow (psychology)
• Paradox of hedonism
• Gratification

References

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