pleasurable+sensation
21buzz — I. n 1. a rumour. A usage now so widespread as to be a colloquialism rather than slang. 2. a pleasurable sensation, stimulation. In the jargon of drug users, especially the beats and later the hippies, the word referred to a surge of… …
22titillation — n. 1. Tickling. 2. Slight pleasure, pleasurable sensation …
23nepenthe — ne•pen•the [[t]nɪˈpɛn θi[/t]] n. pl. thes 1) anq pha a drug or drink, or the plant yielding it, mentioned by ancient writers as having the power to bring forgetfulness of sorrow or trouble 2) anything inducing a pleasurable sensation of… …
24touchy-feely — /tʌtʃi ˈfili/ (say tuchee feelee) adjective Colloquial 1. providing a pleasurable sensation to the touch: a touchy feely fabric. 2. inclined to excessive, especially unwelcome, physical contact in greeting or conversing with others. 3. involving… …
25Orgasm — For other uses, see Orgasm (disambiguation). Frenzy of Exultations (1894), by Wł …
26literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
27Epicureanism — • In its popular sense, the word stands for a refined and calculating selfishness, seeking not power or fame, but the pleasures of sense, particularly of the palate, and those in company rather than solitude Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight.… …
28Epicureanism — Stephen Everson It is tempting to portray Epicureanism as the most straightforward, perhaps even simplistic, of the major dogmatic philosophical schools of the Hellenistic age. Starting from an atomic physics, according to which ‘the totality of… …
29Kant: Critique of Judgement — Patrick Gardiner Kant’s third Critique, the Critique of Judgement, was published in 1790 and was intended as he himself put it to bring his “entire critical undertaking to a close.” So conceived, it was certainly in part designed to build upon… …
30pleasure — A surprisingly complex concept, although central to any account of human and animal motivation. Perhaps the simplest theory of pleasure treats it as being on the same dimension as pain: a bodily sensation, but of a positive kind, where pain is of …
