Pleasance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}] [ant: {pain}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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