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noun as in delight, happiness

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amusement, bliss, comfort, contentment, enjoyment, gratification, hobby, joy, luxury, satisfaction, thrill

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buzz, delectation, diversion, ease, entertainment, felicity, flash, fruition, game, gladness, gluttony, gusto, indulgence, joyride, kick, kicks, recreation, relish, revelry, seasoning, self-indulgence, solace, spice, titillation, turnon, velvet, zest

noun as in will, inclination

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By contrast, Matthen sees color as more reality-dependent than the feeling of pleasure, while still being less real world-based than a so-called primary quality, like the movement or size of atoms.

In the mid-1800s, famed naturalist Charles Darwin wrote that "the lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery."

The English vocal powerhouse Yola spells out her pleasure principle on “Symphony,” a funky, upbeat celebration of sensuality that will appear on her forthcoming EP, “My Way.”

A romantic cave sequence splits the difference between mythic mystery and more immediate pleasures, a complex moment that the Roberto Rossellini of “Voyage to Italy” would have been proud to sign.

So it is a great pleasure to watch all the Republican leaders who repeatedly intervened to protect Donald Trump from himself now reap their reward: a big ol' contempt loogie in their eyes.