pleasurability love

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  • noun The quality or state of being pleasurable.

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Examples

  • The researchers also examined the pleasurability of scratching the itches, which was higher for the ankle and back than for the forearm.

    A Dip in the Pool Does an Aging Body Good Jeremy Singer-Vine 2012

  • Once again I came to realize how the beach provides us not just with pleasurability but also measurability.

    The Panda's Thumb: Privileged Planet Archives 2008

  • He dispenses advice about how book shops can increase their profitability by enhancing the pleasurability of book buying and, at the same time, build customer loyalty.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

  • He dispenses advice about how book shops can increase their profitability by enhancing the pleasurability of book buying and, at the same time, build customer loyalty.

    How Squidgy is Your Bookshop? Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Whereas Gerard holds association merely to be a vehicle by which pleasurability is transmitted from the naturally pleasurable mental operation to the object of taste, Alison holds association also to be the central mental operation from which pleasurability is transmitted to the object taste.

    18th Century British Aesthetics Shelley, James 2006

  • It is a complicated process by which Alison takes the object of taste to acquire its pleasurability.

    18th Century British Aesthetics Shelley, James 2006

  • Similarly, we should also examine the practices and cultural representations (claims) about games' safety and pleasurability (or otherwise) in every case.

    Against Exceptionalism: A New Approach to Games 2006

  • Thus objects of taste must acquire their pleasurability.

    18th Century British Aesthetics Shelley, James 2006

  • He follows after Gerard in holding that objects of taste are not naturally pleasurable, as Hutcheson had supposed, and so follows after Gerard in holding that objects of taste must acquire their pleasurability from something else that is naturally pleasurable.

    18th Century British Aesthetics Shelley, James 2006

  • Still, I shall venture to express the opinion that the pleasurability of such railway journeys is largely dependent upon the person who may be our travelling companion, and that some of the companies are not quite careful enough in the exclusion of undesirable fellow-passengers.

    Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

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