Boredom vs Pleasure - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The state of being bored.
* 1852 , (Charles Dickens), ,
(countable) An instance or period of a state of being bored; a variety of bored state.
* 1995 , , William McNeill, Nicholas Walker (translators), The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude ,
* 1999 , Michael L. Raposa, Boredom and the Religious Imagination ,
* See more citations at boredoms.
(uncountable) A state of being pleased.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 22, author=Sam Sheringham, work=BBC Sport
, title= (countable) A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.
* Bible, (w) xxv. 9
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot
, volume=188, issue=23, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (uncountable) One's preference.
(formal, uncountable) The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.
* Bible, (w) xlviii. 14
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify.
* Tennyson
to give pleasure (especially sexual pleasure) to
(dated) To take pleasure; to seek or pursue pleasure.
In uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between boredom and pleasure
is that boredom is (uncountable) the state of being bored while pleasure is (uncountable) one's preference.In countable|lang=en terms the difference between boredom and pleasure
is that boredom is (countable) an instance or period of a state of being bored; a variety of bored state while pleasure is (countable) a person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.As nouns the difference between boredom and pleasure
is that boredom is (uncountable) the state of being bored while pleasure is (uncountable) a state of being pleased.As an interjection pleasure is
pleased to meet you.As a verb pleasure is
to give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify.boredom
English
(wikipedia boredom)Noun
(en-noun)- only last Sunday, my Lady, in the desolation of Boredom and the clutch of Giant Despair, almost hated her own maid for being in spirits.
page 107,
- If we are seeking a more original conception of boredom then we must also correspondingly endeavour to envisage a more original form'' of boredom, thus presumably a boredom in which we become more ''bored than in the situation we have characterized.
page 58,
- Yet that earlier characterization was of a kind of boredom that can be portrayed as resembling acedia; that is, a boredom that I can be held responsible for, either in its genesis or its persistence.
Synonyms
* (state of being bored) ennuiSee also
* accidie * acedia * ennuiAnagrams
* *pleasure
English
(wikipedia pleasure)Noun
(en noun)Liverpool 0-1 West Brom, passage=But the only statistic that will concern West Brom will be the scoreline, and their manager Roy Hodgson will take considerable pleasure from a victory over the club he managed for just 191 days.}}
- Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure
Money just makes the rich suffer, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures , the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]}}
- He will do his pleasure on Babylon.
- Use your pleasure ; if your love do not persuade you to come, let not my letter.
Synonyms
* (state of mind ) delight, gladness, gratification, happiness, indulgence, satisfaction * (person or thing that causes enjoyment ): delight, joy * (preference ) desire, fancy, want, will, wish * (will or desire of party in power ) discretionAntonyms
* pain * displeasureDerived terms
* antipleasure * at Her Majesty's pleasure, at His Majesty's pleasure * at one's pleasure, at pleasure * business before pleasure * do someone a pleasure * do someone the pleasure of * during Her Majesty's pleasure, during His Majesty's pleasure * during one's pleasure, during pleasure * end-pleasure * English pleasure * fore-pleasure * gold of pleasure, gold-of-pleasure, gold-pleasure * it's a pleasure * lady of pleasure * man of pleasure * may I have the pleasure * my pleasure * pleasurable * pleasurance * pleasure barge * pleasure boat * pleasure-carriage * pleasure center, pleasure centre * pleasure craft * pleasure cruise * pleasure curve * pleasured * pleasure dome * pleasuredrome * pleasureful * pleasure-giving * pleasure ground * pleasurehood * pleasure house * the pleasure is all mine, the pleasure's all mine * the pleasure is mine, the pleasure's mine * pleasureless * pleasure-loving * pleasurement * pleasure moment * pleasuremonger * pleasure of someone's company * pleasure-pain principle * pleasure principle * pleasurer * pleasure-seeker * pleasure-seeking * pleasures of the flesh * pleasures of the table * pleasure steamer * pleasure trip * pleasure-unpleasure principle * pleasuring * pleasurist * pleasurous * sexual pleasure * to one's pleasure, to pleasure * unpleasure * western pleasure * with pleasure * woman of pleasureVerb
(pleasur)- (Shakespeare)
- [Rolled] his hoop to pleasure Edith.
- Johnny pleasured Jackie orally last night.
- to go pleasuring