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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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, pleasance] [ant: pain, painfulness]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A secluded part of a garden. [Archaic]
      [1913 Webster]

            The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses. --Ruskin.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for pleasance:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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