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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passion |
| Synonyms: | ardor, emotion, enthusiasm, fervor, fire, fury, gusto, heart, intensity, vehemence, zeal, zest |
| Notes: | the intensity of heat or feeling can be described as fervency (from Latin fervere 'boil'); an instance of this heat or feeling is fervor |
| Main Entry: | pleasure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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pleasure, queme, raptured, rapturous, ravished, ravishing, refreshing, resigned, satisfactory, satisfied, saturnian, seducing, sensual, seraphic, serene, suant, suboptimal, sweet, sybaritic, taking, thrice happy, thrilling, to one's liking, to one's mind, to one's taste, tolerable, transported, unafflicted, unalloyed, unmolested, unplagued, unrepining, unvexed, voluptuous, welcome, welcome as the roses in May, welcomed, wilcweme, winning, winsome, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, without alloy
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| Concept: | Pleasure. |
| Category: | 1. Passive Affections |
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pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition; oblection, delection; relish, zest; gusto (physical pleasure); satisfaction (content); complacency., well-being; good; snugness, comfort, ease; cushion; sans souci, mind at ease., joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine; cheerfulness., treat, refreshment; amusement; luxury., mens sana in corpore sano [Juvenal]., happiness, felicity, bliss; beatitide, beautification; enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy; summum bonum; paradise, elysium ( heaven) [more]; third heaven, seventh heaven; unalloyed happiness; hedonics, hedonism., honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time; Dixie, Dixie's land; Saturnia regna, Arcadia, happy valley, Agapemone.
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| Antonyms: | pain |
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| Concept: | [Good taste.] Taste. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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taste; good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety (discrimination); ; polish, elegance, grace., virtu; delettanteism; fine art; culture, cultivation., [Science of taste] aesthetics., man of taste; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscent, virtuoso, amateur, dilettant, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist., "caviare to the general" [Hamlet].
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| Antonyms: | vulgarity |
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