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antipleasure

adj

Etymology

From anti- + pleasure.

  1. derived from *pleh₂-k-✻
  2. derived from placeō — “to please, to seem good”
  3. derived from plesir
  4. inherited from plaisir
  5. prefixed as antipleasure — “anti + pleasure”

Definitions

  1. Opposing pleasure.

    • The old saw that if it feels too good it's probably illegal, immoral, or fattening is no joke. Deep down inside, many of us believe it. In fact, our entire culture, with its roots in Puritanism, has a distinct antipleasure bias.
    • To the degree that the church has been antisexual and antipleasure, it has failed to be consistent with our understanding of what the Bible has to say about sex within marriage.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA