pleasance

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}]
    

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.
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   2. A secluded part of a garden. [Archaic]
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            The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses. --Ruskin.
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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