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antipleasure

antipleasure adjective: opposing pleasure.

Adjective

antipleasure (comparative more antipleasure, superlative most antipleasure)

  1. Opposing pleasure.
    • The old saw that if it feels too good it's probably illegal, immoral, or fattening is no joke. Deep down inside, many of us believe it. In fact, our entire culture, with its roots in Puritanism, has a distinct antipleasure bias.1998, Stella Resnick, The Pleasure Zone
    • To the degree that the church has been antisexual and antipleasure, it has failed to be consistent with our understanding of what the Bible has to say about sex within marriage.2003, Clifford L. Penner, Joyce Penner, The Gift of Sex

Forms of antipleasure

comparativemore antipleasure
superlativemost antipleasure

Origin of antipleasure

From anti- + pleasure.

Questions about antipleasure

What does antipleasure mean?
Antipleasure means opposing pleasure.
What part of speech is antipleasure?
Antipleasure is an adjective.

Words near antipleasure in the dictionary

  1. antiplatelet
  2. antiplatelets
  3. antiplatonic
  4. antiplay
  5. antiplays
  6. antipleasure
  7. antiplectic
  8. antipledge
  9. antipledges
  10. antipledging
  11. antipleion

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