JOUISANCES Synonyms

• a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction

• something or someone that provides a source of happiness

• give pleasure to or be pleasing to

• take delight in

• hold spellbound

• an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates

• a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)

• an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack

• the pleasure felt when having a good time

• act of receiving pleasure from something

• (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property

• an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention

• state of being gratified or satisfied

• the act or an instance of satisfying

• a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly)

• a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience

• something or someone that provides a source of happiness

• a formal expression

• an activity that affords enjoyment

• sexual gratification

• the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation

• state of being gratified or satisfied

• compensation for a wrong

• (law) the payment of a debt or fulfillment of an obligation

• act of fulfilling a desire or need or appetite

• the swift release of a store of affective force

• an almost pleasurable sensation of fright

• something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation

• cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input

• feel sudden intense sensation or emotion

• tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement

• fill with sublime emotion