pleasance
plea·sance
noun
2.
a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
- “he was tingling with pleasure”
Origin
From an Old French female given name Plaisance, from plaisance (“pleasance”). The surname is partly matronymic, partly habitational from the Italian town of Piacenza.
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