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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's experiences |
| Synonyms: | attainment, behavior, circumstances, conduct, development, enjoyment, enlightenment, growth, hand one is dealt, happiness, human condition, journey, knowledge, lifestyle, participation, personality, realization, suffering, trials and tribulations, vicissitudes, way of life, world |
| Main Entry: | luxury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great pleasure, indulgence |
| Synonyms: | affluence, bliss, comfort, delight, enjoyment, exorbitance, extravagance, frill, gratification, hedonism, high living, immoderation, intemperance, leisure, luxuriousness, opulence, rarity, richness, satisfaction, splendor, sumptuousness, treat, well-being |
| Antonyms: | austerity, economy, frugality |
| Main Entry: | pleasure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delight, happiness |
| Synonyms: | amusement, bliss, buzz*, comfort, contentment, delectation, diversion, ease, enjoyment, entertainment, felicity, flash*, fruition, game, gladness, gluttony, gratification, gusto, hobby, indulgence, joie de vivre, joy, joyride, kick*, kicks, luxury, primrose path, recreation, relish, revelry, satisfaction, seasoning, self-indulgence, solace, spice, thrill, titillation, turn-on, velvet*, zest |
| Antonyms: | gloom, melancholy, pain, sadness, sorrow, trouble, unhappiness, worry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rapture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme happiness and delight in something |
| Synonyms: | at-oneness, beatitude, bliss, buoyancy, cheer, cloud nine, communion, contentment, cool*, delectation, ecstasy, elation, elysium, enchantment, enjoyment, enthusiasm, euphoria, exaltation, exhilaration, felicity, gaiety, gladness, glory, good spirits, gratification, heaven, inspiration, joy, jubilation, nirvana, paradise, passion, pleasure, ravishment, rhapsody, satisfaction, seventh heaven, spell, transport, well-being |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recreation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sports, games, special interests |
| Synonyms: | R and R, amusement, avocation, ball*, disport, dissipation, distraction, diversion, divertissement, ease, enjoyment, entertainment, exercise, festivity, field day, frolic, fun, fun and games, game, hilarity, hobby, holiday, jollity, laughs, leisure activity, mirth, pastime, picnic, play, playtime, pleasure, rec, refreshment, relaxation, relief, repose, rollick, sport, vacation |
| Antonyms: | labor, profession, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | relaxation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertainment; resting or recovering |
| Synonyms: | alleviation, amusement, assuagement, diversion, enjoyment, fun, leisure, loosening, mitigation, pleasure, reclining, recreation, refreshment, relief, repose, requiescence, rest |
| Antonyms: | intensification, labor, work |
| Main Entry: | relish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great appreciation of something |
| Synonyms: | appetite, bias, delectation, diversion, enjoying, enjoyment, fancy, flair, flavor, fondness, gusto, heart, leaning, liking, love, loving, palate, partiality, penchant, pleasure, predilection, prejudice, propensity, sapidity, sapor, savor, smack, stomach, tang, taste, zest |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | satisfaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving or enjoying a state of comfort, content |
| Synonyms: | achievement, amends, amusement, atonement, bliss, cheerfulness, comfort, compensation, complacency, conciliation, contentedness, contentment, delight, ease, enjoyment, fulfillment, gladness, good fortune, gratification, happiness, indemnification, indulgence, joy, justice, peace of mind, pleasure, pride, propitiation, recompense, redress, refreshment, reimbursement, relief, reparation, repletion, resolution, reward, satiety, serenity, settlement, vindication, well-being |
| Antonyms: | discontent, dissatisfaction, need, unhappiness, want |
| Main Entry: | sweet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sugary food |
| Synonyms: | bonbon, candy, chocolate, confection, confectionery, confiture, delight, dessert, enjoyment, final course, gratification, joy, pleasure, pudding, snack, sugarplum, sweetmeat |
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