Definitions for: Pleasance

[n] a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure"
[n] a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion

Webster (1913) Definition: Pleas"ance, n. [F. plaisance. See Please.]
1. Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. [Archaic]
--Shak. ``Full great pleasance.'' --Chaucer. ``A realm of
pleasance.'' --Tennyson.

2. A secluded part of a garden. [Archaic]

The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses. --Ruskin.

Synonyms: pleasure

Antonyms: pain, painfulness

See Also: comfort, delectation, delight, enjoyment, feeling, pleasantness, retreat, sexual pleasure

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