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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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;
- Example: "he was tingling with pleasure"
[syn: pleasure, pleasance]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pleasance \Pleas"ance\, n. [F. plaisance. See Please.] 1. Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. [Archaic] --Shak. "Full great pleasance." --Chaucer. "A realm of pleasance." --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. A secluded part of a garden. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses. --Ruskin. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pleasance n 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; "he was tingling with pleasure" [syn: pleasure, pleasance] [ant: pain, painfulness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

41 Moby Thesaurus words for "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