pleasure centrepleasure centern.

Brit.

/ˈplɛʒə sɛntə/, U.S.

/ˈplɛʒər ˌsɛn(t)ər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pleasure n., centre n.¹

Etymology: < pleasure n. + centre n.¹

1. A place offering a wide range of leisure activities; a place known for offering amusements and attractions, esp. of a sensual or sexual nature.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > town or city as

open town1720

pleasure centre1877

bright lights1916

1877 Daily Nevada State Jrnl. 9 May 4/1 Its proximity to San Francisco will doubtless make it one of the most important health and pleasure centers of the State.

1903 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily News 5 Jan. 5/1 Preparations are on foot to make the Rome City resort a greater pleasure center than ever.

1912 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 18 268 One might easily make an anthology of his sayings..; costly pleasure-centers are ‘the cream-pots of the country's wealth-production’.

1929 French Rev. 3 62 France..suffers..from the pre-eminence of Paris as the world's pleasure centre.

1956 J. S. Holmes & A. van Marle tr. H. M. van Randwijk World on Move 185 (caption) Bao-dai, the former emperor of Annam, was called from his well-loved pleasure centre on the Riviera and made head of the new state [sc. Vietnam] in 1949.

1999 Ethics 110 84 The policies they [sc. egalitarians] should support include more health care for men..; state-sponsored pleasure centers for men.

2. A reward centre in the brain (see reward n. 6e); (also occasionally) a part of the body in which sensations of pleasure can be felt.

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the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > as (supposed) seat of faculty > seats of specific faculties

sensorium1613

sensitory1649

sensory1653

sensoriolum1715

respiratory centre1841

Broca1875

writing centre1878

speech-centre1881

heat-centre1884

speech area1885

pleasure centre1892

language area1898

motorium1900

isocortex1934

visceral brain1949

satiety centre1951

limbic system1952

reward cell1956

1892 Philos. Rev. 1 634 On the other hand, there is not the faintest indication, to my knowledge, of the existence of a pleasure centre in the brain.

1941 National Math. Mag. 15 386 The beginning of an æsthetic theory of visual forms is based on a network of fibers connecting cerebral centers governing the eye-muscles and a postulated ‘pleasure center’.

1971 H. C. Lindgren & D. Byrne Psychol. (ed. 3) viii. 261 When electrodes are implanted in the pleasure center of a rat's brain, it will press a treadle to give himself [sic] a split second of electric stimulation.

1999 Gender & Society 13 716 True empowerment had everything to do with the ‘new’ female pleasure center, the clitoris, and had little to do with the vagina.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pleasure centre
释义	pleasure centrepleasure centern. Brit. /ˈplɛʒə sɛntə/, U.S. /ˈplɛʒər ˌsɛn(t)ər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pleasure n., centre n.¹ Etymology: < pleasure n. + centre n.¹ 1. A place offering a wide range of leisure activities; a place known for offering amusements and attractions, esp. of a sensual or sexual nature. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > town or city as open town1720 pleasure centre1877 bright lights1916 1877 Daily Nevada State Jrnl. 9 May 4/1 Its proximity to San Francisco will doubtless make it one of the most important health and pleasure centers of the State. 1903 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily News 5 Jan. 5/1 Preparations are on foot to make the Rome City resort a greater pleasure center than ever. 1912 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 18 268 One might easily make an anthology of his sayings..; costly pleasure-centers are ‘the cream-pots of the country's wealth-production’. 1929 French Rev. 3 62 France..suffers..from the pre-eminence of Paris as the world's pleasure centre. 1956 J. S. Holmes & A. van Marle tr. H. M. van Randwijk World on Move 185 (caption) Bao-dai, the former emperor of Annam, was called from his well-loved pleasure centre on the Riviera and made head of the new state [sc. Vietnam] in 1949. 1999 Ethics 110 84 The policies they [sc. egalitarians] should support include more health care for men..; state-sponsored pleasure centers for men. 2. A reward centre in the brain (see reward n. 6e); (also occasionally) a part of the body in which sensations of pleasure can be felt. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > as (supposed) seat of faculty > seats of specific faculties sensorium1613 sensitory1649 sensory1653 sensoriolum1715 respiratory centre1841 Broca1875 writing centre1878 speech-centre1881 heat-centre1884 speech area1885 pleasure centre1892 language area1898 motorium1900 isocortex1934 visceral brain1949 satiety centre1951 limbic system1952 reward cell1956 1892 Philos. Rev. 1 634 On the other hand, there is not the faintest indication, to my knowledge, of the existence of a pleasure centre in the brain. 1941 National Math. Mag. 15 386 The beginning of an æsthetic theory of visual forms is based on a network of fibers connecting cerebral centers governing the eye-muscles and a postulated ‘pleasure center’. 1971 H. C. Lindgren & D. Byrne Psychol. (ed. 3) viii. 261 When electrodes are implanted in the pleasure center of a rat's brain, it will press a treadle to give himself [sic] a split second of electric stimulation. 1999 Gender & Society 13 716 True empowerment had everything to do with the ‘new’ female pleasure center, the clitoris, and had little to do with the vagina. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1877
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