pleasurable

Etymology

From pleasure + -able.

adj

  1. That gives pleasure
    The massage was a pleasurable experience.
    c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers Planting of orchards is very […] pleasurable.
    At Rome every Pleasurable Female pays a Julio per Week to the Church […] 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury
    Happiness is, therefore, a thing most excellent and noble, as well as being most pleasurable […] 1879, Walter Mooney Hatch, Edwin Hatch, The Moral Philosophy of Aristotle
    Impassioned pleas for pleasurable instruction appeared from the pens of such thinkers as Plato, Sidney, and Dryden, this ideal ultimately becoming one of the acknowledged cornerstones of neoclassical criticism. 1978, Charles Batten, Pleasurable Instruction
    Opiate receptors in human brains allow us to perceive pleasurable stimuli such as sweet tastes. 2006, Jonathan Balcombe, Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good
    They love good food, well prepared, truly fresh, and pleasurable. 2011, Jamie Cat Callan, French Women Don't Sleep Alone: Pleasurable Secrets to Finding Love
    This volume discusses pleasurable design — a part of the traditional usability design and evaluation methodologies. 2014, Yong Gu Ji, Sooshin Choi, Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design

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