antipleasure

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
18
Letters
12

Definition of antipleasure

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  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.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

From anti- + pleasure.

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6 words

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7-letter words

4 words

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