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Thesaurus: pleasance

Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness.

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  1. n. Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness.
  2. n. A secluded part of a garden.
  3. n. a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion
  4. n. a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
  5. 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.
  6. n. a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion