pleasurable
adjective
pleasurableness
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a word derived from
pleasurable.
Example Sentences
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It will be found that even in the lighter forms of drama which we accept as typical and satisfactory this social flavor may be detected, giving it body, but not detracting from its pleasurableness.
From How to See a Play by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The pleasurableness or painfulness is predicated of some definite object or event, and corresponds to definite actualities perceived in the object or imagined with the help of former experience.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
And knowing this, we are content that the act of garnering, of preparing, for such future enjoyment, should lack any steady or deep pleasurableness about itself.
From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Vernon Lee
The psychological treatment of aesthetic data here sketched out cannot stop at an analysis of the aesthetic state or attitude into a number of recoenizable elements each of which contributes its own quantum of pleasurableness.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
This leads us to recognize the psychological conditions of increased energy, which are, first, the presence of more ideas, second, the more facile flow of ideas; the whole accompanied by a state of marked pleasurableness.
From How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study by Harry D. Kitson
