'Pleasance' definitions:
Definition of 'pleasance'
(from WordNet)
noun
A pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion
noun
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]
Definition of 'Pleasance'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'pleasance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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