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Pleasure vs Felicific - What's the difference?

pleasure | felicific |

As a noun 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.

As an adjective felicific is

(rare|chiefly|philosophy) of, pertaining to, or producing pleasure or happiness.

pleasure

English

(wikipedia pleasure)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) A state of being pleased.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 22, author=Sam Sheringham, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= 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.}}
  • (countable) A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.
  • * Bible, (w) xxv. 9
    • Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure
  • *
    • , 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= 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. […]}}
  • (uncountable) One's preference.
  • (formal, uncountable) The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.
  • * Bible, (w) xlviii. 14
    • He will do his pleasure on Babylon.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • 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 ) discretion

    Antonyms

    * pain * displeasure

    Derived 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 pleasure

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • pleased to meet you

    • Related terms

    * displeasure * please * pleasant

    Verb

    (pleasur)
  • To give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Tennyson
    • [Rolled] his hoop to pleasure Edith.
  • to give pleasure (especially sexual pleasure) to
    • Johnny pleasured Jackie orally last night.
  • (dated) To take pleasure; to seek or pursue pleasure.
    • to go pleasuring

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    felicific

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare, chiefly, philosophy) Of, pertaining to, or producing pleasure or happiness.
  • * 1895 , John Grier Hibben, "Automatism in Morality," International Journal of Ethics , vol. 5, no. 4, p. 467:
    • Has conduct worth in and for itself, or only as its consequences are felicific as regards the social welfare?
  • * 1980 , Philip Drew, "Jane Austen and Bishop Butler," Nineteenth-Century Fiction , vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 141-142:
    • It is plain that for Jane Austen the settled habit of moral behavior was of far more importance than spontaneity of moral response, though that in turn was preferable to a calculated weighing of advantages, a point well illustrated when Elizabeth ironically advises Jane that if she is in doubt about whether she ought to accept Bingley she should decide the matter by striking a felicific balance.
  • * 2005 Feb. 7, James Gardner, " Remembering a Great Institution," New York Sun (retrieved 25 Jan 2009):
    • The Langham is proof of the felicific power of good architecture, the power to promote, both in its inhabitants and in passers-by, happiness.

    Derived terms

    * felicific calculus

    Related terms

    * felicity

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.