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jouissance

jouissance noun: enjoyment, delight, pleasure.

Noun

jouissance (countable and uncountable, plural jouissances)

  1. (obsolete) Enjoyment, delight, pleasure.
    • friendship is enjoyed according as it is desired, it is neither bred, nor nourished, nor increaseth but in jovissance, as being spirituall, and the minde being refined by use and custome.1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. A transgressive, excessive kind of pleasure linked to the division and splitting of the subject involved.
    • Instead Lyotard suggests that the worker experiences jouissance, a masochistic pleasure, in the imposed ‘mad destruction’ of their body.2013, Benjamin Noys, Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism, Zero Books, →ISBN

jouissance meaning in Tamil

jouissance in Tamil

அறிவுசார் மகிழ்ச்சி

Forms of jouissance

pluraljouissances

Origin of jouissance

From Middle French jouissance, from jouir (“to enjoy”).

Questions about jouissance

What does jouissance mean?
Jouissance means enjoyment, delight, pleasure.
What is jouissance in Tamil?
Jouissance in Tamil is அறிவுசார் மகிழ்ச்சி. See Jouissance meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is jouissance?
Jouissance is a noun.
What is the plural of jouissance?
The plural of jouissance is jouissances.

Words near jouissance in the dictionary

  1. Jouberts
  2. joug
  3. jough
  4. jougs
  5. jouisance
  6. jouissance
  7. jouissances
  8. jouissant
  9. jouk
  10. jouked
  11. jouking

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