unpleasuren.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈplɛʒə/, U.S. /ˌənˈplɛʒər/ 1. An unpleasurable or unpleasant experience or feeling; a source of displeasure, discomfort, or anxiety.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [noun]
sorrowOE
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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.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun]
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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).
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