单词 | unpleasure |
释义 | unpleasuren. 1. An unpleasurable or unpleasant experience or feeling; a source of displeasure, discomfort, or anxiety. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [noun] sorrowOE ail?c1225 scorpion?c1225 dolec1290 angera1325 anguishc1330 cupa1340 aggrievancea1400 discomfortc1405 afflictionc1429 sytec1440 pressurea1500 constraint1509 tenterhook1532 grief1535 annoying1566 troubler1567 griper1573 vexation1588 infliction1590 trouble1591 temptationc1595 load1600 torment1600 wringer1602 sorance1609 inflicting1611 brusha1616 freighta1631 woe-heart1637 ordeala1658 cut-up1782 unpleasure1792 iron maiden1870 mental cruelty1899 1792 F. Burney Jrnl. Jan. (1972) I. 111 I told him, very truly, of the pleasure with which I had re-entered his Roof—but I [write] the unpleasures that followed! 1901 Mind 10 475 He..maintains without argument the qualitative identity of all pleasures and of all unpleasures. 1987 J. Fiske Television Culture vii. 114 Genre knowledge is crucial to the pleasure of the mystery/thriller/adventure film, for it works to compensate for potential unpleasures in the plot structure. 2012 R. L. A. Clark in E. Gertsman & J. Stevenson Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture iii. 256 The downplaying of sex or procreation altogether in its discussion of the pleasure (and unpleasures) of married relations. 2. The condition or sensation induced by the experience or anticipation of what is felt to be not good or undesirable; (now chiefly Psychoanalysis) the sense of inner pain, discomfort, or anxiety which results from the blocking by the ego of an instinctual impulse towards pleasure and release of tension. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun] unthankc893 ofthinkingc1225 displeasancec1340 grievancec1380 offencec1390 griefa1400 ill liking?a1400 mislikinga1400 displacencec1450 displeasure1484 displeasantness1547 discontentment1550 displeasedness1561 discontent1579 displicence1593 aggrievedness1594 disconceitc1598 distasture1611 displicency1640 disobligation1645 displacencya1652 affront1705 disobligement18.. unpleasure1814 misloving1871 unwill1872 displeasurement1882 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > theories of Freud > [noun] > search for pleasure > opposed to pleasure unpleasure1814 1814 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 639 I don't like to use any words that might give you unpleasure. 1839 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. J. Hodgson (1858) II. 411 Walked about half a mile with great unpleasure. 1901 Mind 10 476 Where there is unpleasure and aversion, activity is at once stimulated and blocked. 1925 I. A. Richards Princ. Lit. Crit. xii. 95 Unpleasure being frustrated, chaotic, mal-successful activity. 1974 Nature 11 Oct. 500/2 The monkeys' ‘interest’ overrode—so long as it lasted—their ‘unpleasure’. 2010 Mod. Philol. 107 563 Masochism seems to thwart the pleasure principle by seeking states of unpleasure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1792 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。