pleasurable
Origin of pleasurable
1Other words from pleasurable
- pleas·ur·a·ble·ness, noun
- pleas·ur·a·bly, adverb
- qua·si-pleas·ur·a·ble, adjective
- qua·si-pleas·ur·a·bly, adverb
- un·pleas·ur·a·ble, adjective
Words Nearby pleasurable
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How to use pleasurable in a sentence
It can develop from use of initially pleasurable, habit-forming drugs, such as nicotine and opioids.
COVID-19 risk linked to vaping, but addicted kids find it hard to stop | Janet Raloff | October 27, 2020 | Science News For StudentsThis aesthetic principle of “unity-in-variety,” as coined by the psychologist Daniel Berlyne, satisfies our curiosity and desire for learning while also allowing the disparate elements to be efficiently processed in ways we deem pleasurable.
There’s a science to food pairing, and you can learn it here | Peter Coucquyt, Bernard Lahousse, and Johan Langenbick | October 22, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIt’s a transportive and pleasurable experience that people seek to achieve, and that neuroscience is now seeking to understand.
The Neurology of Flow States - Issue 91: The Amazing Brain | Heather Berlin | October 14, 2020 | NautilusHappiness tends to be the pleasurable feeling we get from having the sense that life is going well.
How to find joy during tough times | By Angela Gorrell/The Conversation | October 9, 2020 | Popular-ScienceSeduce yourself, appropriate your own longing for a better, more pleasurable, more spectacular future.
Solarpunk Is Growing a Gorgeous New World in the Cracks of the Old One | Carin Ism | September 6, 2020 | Singularity Hub
I actually found it quite pleasurable, and it prepared me for this strange, gypsy lifestyle of an actor.
Jena Malone’s Long, Strange Trip From Homelessness to Hollywood Stardom | Marlow Stern | December 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNot only were all of the new positions physically possible, they were also eminently pleasurable.
For more than decade, flying has been made irksome rather than pleasurable by an ever-increasing fortress culture at airports.
Twin Disasters Turn 2014 Into the Year of Flying Dangerously | Clive Irving | July 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDisney World is in the business of producing pleasurable experiences.
Disney World Means Everything to a Special Needs Mom | Elizabeth Picciuto | July 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOf course, pleasure is certainly more, well, pleasurable than pain.
The Science of Weepies: Why We Love Crying at the Movies | Elizabeth Picciuto | June 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI knew not that contention could be rendered so sweet and pleasurable a thing to the nerves as I then felt it.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.No one spoke, but all watched her closely; and Rita was conscious of a growing, pleasurable excitement.
Dope | Sax RohmerThere 123 were too many skaters and sleighs on the ice down here to make iceboating either safe or pleasurable.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonOr to speak more truly, the more pleasurable and splendid aspects of nature give me pain.
Marguerite | Anatole FranceIt would come, a pleasurable thing to look forward to, when other sales showed signs of exhaustion.
Jaffery | William J. Locke
British Dictionary definitions for pleasurable
/ (ˈplɛʒərəbəl) /
enjoyable, agreeable, or gratifying
Derived forms of pleasurable
- pleasurableness, noun
- pleasurably, adverb
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