pleasance

1. 1.

   a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion

   Broaderretreat
2. 2.

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

   “he was tingling with pleasure”

   Synonymspleasure

   Broaderfeeling

   Narrowerdelightenjoymentpleasantnesscomfortsexual pleasure

Other forms of pleasance

plural

pleasances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pleasance

What does pleasance mean?

pleasance means "a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pleasance?

pleasance has 3 syllables: ple-a-sance. The stress falls on "ple".

What is another word for pleasance?

Close synonyms include pleasure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pleasance a common word?

pleasance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.