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PRONUNCIATION OF PLEASURE-SEEKING

pleasure-seeking  [ˈpleʒəˌsiːkɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLEASURE-SEEKING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pleasure-Seeking is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PLEASURE-SEEKING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pleasure-seeking in the English dictionary

The definition of pleasure-seeking in the dictionary is always looking for pleasure.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PLEASURE-SEEKING


attention-seeking
əˈtenʃənˌsiːkɪŋ
English-speaking
ˈɪŋɡlɪʃˌspiːkɪŋ
freaking
ˈfriːkɪŋ
French-speaking
ˈfrɛntʃˌspiːkɪŋ
German-speaking
ˈdʒɜːmənˌspiːkɪŋ
networking
ˈnɛtˌwɜːkɪŋ
nonspeaking
nɒnˈspiːkɪŋ
parking
ˈpɑːkɪŋ
phreaking
ˈfriːkɪŋ
piquing
ˈpiːkɪŋ
profit-seeking
ˈprɒfɪtˌsiːkɪŋ
publicity-seeking
pʌˈblɪsɪtɪ ˈsiːkɪŋ
reeking
ˈriːkɪŋ
screaking
ˈskriːkɪŋ
slow-speaking
ˌsləʊˈspiːkɪŋ
sneaking
ˈsniːkɪŋ
speaking
ˈspiːkɪŋ
streaking
ˈstriːkɪŋ
talking
ˈtɔːkɪŋ
walking
ˈwɔːkɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLEASURE-SEEKING

pleaser
pleasing
pleasingly
pleasingness
pleasurability
pleasurable
pleasurableness
pleasurably
pleasure
pleasure boat
pleasure craft
pleasure cruise
pleasure principle
pleasure steamer
pleasure trip
pleasure-loving
pleasure-seeker
pleasureful
pleasureless
pleasurer

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLEASURE-SEEKING

banking
booking
breaking
clicking
cooking
drinking
foreking
fucking
heat-seeking
in the making
king
Mafeking
making
on-street parking
Peking
ranking
self-seeking
smoking
sucking
taking

Synonyms and antonyms of pleasure-seeking in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pleasure-seeking» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLEASURE-SEEKING

Find out the translation of pleasure-seeking to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pleasure-seeking from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pleasure-seeking» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

享乐
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la búsqueda del placer
570 millions of speakers

English

pleasure-seeking
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खुशी की मांग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مستهتر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

удовольствие ищет своего
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

busca do prazer
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পরিতোষ-চাইছেন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la recherche du plaisir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mencari keseronokan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vergnügungssucht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

快楽追求
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

즐거움 을 추구하는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kesenengan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ham mê
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இன்பம் காண்பது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुखप्राप्ती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zevk düşkünü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ricerca del piacere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Poszukiwanie przyjemności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

задоволення шукає свого
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

plăcere -seeking
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αναψυχής αναζήτηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

plesier -soekende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nöje sökande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nytelse -søkende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pleasure-seeking

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLEASURE-SEEKING»

The term «pleasure-seeking» is regularly used and occupies the 106.660 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PLEASURE-SEEKING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pleasure-seeking

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLEASURE-SEEKING»

Discover the use of pleasure-seeking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pleasure-seeking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Handbook of Personality, Third Edition: Theory and Research
relationships), not pleasure seeking (desirous of sex). Yet the antinomy between pleasure seeking and object seeking is only an antinomy in the context of Freud's specific meaning of libido, which confounds pleasure seeking with sexual ...
Oliver P. John, Richard W. Robins, Lawrence A. Pervin, 2008
2
Drug Use, Policy, and Management
Risk-taking was found to be associated with those who were more rebellious and pleasure seeking. Those with a greater degree of motivation were less rebellious. Rebelliousness was linked to pleasure seeking.49 The status model of drug ...
Richard Isralowitz, 2002
3
Emotional Stress
You must willingly give up pleasure-seeking as the main goal of life, voluntarily and ruthlessly, because it is the root cause of pain and misery, even though to enjoy life is quite alright. 1. Seeking pleasure could be anxiogenic. The process ...
Vasudevan, 2003
4
Theories of Personality
Thus, for Freud, frustration of the child's pleasure-seeking (sexual) needs leads to disordered functioning. In contrast, Kohut believed that, during this period, the child demands an emotionally supportive, food-giving self-object (the mother) to ...
Richard Ryckman, 2007
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Subjectivity in Political Economy: Essays on Wanting and ...
The idea of pleasure-seeking looms large in our thinking about the individual's relation to the world outside. It does so because it represents an elemental modality of that relation. In its simplest terms, the relation of self to not-self is a desire ...
David P. Levine, 2005
6
Young Consumers' Credit Based Lifestyles and Payment Problems
On one hand, it was easy to differentiate between an easy-living, pleasure- seeking and a rambling lifestyle. On the other hand, distinguishing between an easy-living, pleasure-seeking and an riskinvesting type was difficult in some cases, and ...
Anna-Riitta Lehtinen, Johanna Leskinen, Nordisk Ministerråd, 2005
7
From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities: An Evolutionary ...
This book provides a valuable complement to Hodgson’s earlier work with Thorbjørn Knudsen on evolutionary economics in Darwin’s Conjecture, extending the evolutionary outlook to include moral and policy-related issues.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson, 2012
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From instinct To Identity
At first, the infant makes no distinction between himself and the "object" involved in the gratification of this pleasure- seeking instinct. Out of experiences of frustration, however, there gradually develops a sense of the boundary between self or ...
Breger, 1974
9
Infantile Sexuality and Attachment
But he added that there was no psychoanalytic warrant for concluding that object relations determine all tendencies and behaviors, and he was reluctant to discard pleasure seeking as a libidinal motivation, preferring to examine how these ...
Daniel Widlocher, 2004
10
Consumer Society in American History: A Reader
Thus, the Romantics' principal objection to consumption (it is said) was not that it was prompted by a search for pleasure (even less that it gave pleasure), but that pleasure seeking was not being taken seriously enough. In other words ...
Lawrence B. Glickman, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLEASURE-SEEKING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pleasure-seeking is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Original Cursed Video to Appear In 'Rings'?!
Galecki will play Gabriel, a handsome, pleasure-seeking professor who mentors and helps boyfriend and girlfriend duo, Holt (Alex Roe) and ... «Bloody Disgusting, Jul 15»
2
Generationally divided we fall
Their liberalism could be viewed as permissiveness, their pleasure-seeking as indulgence, their optimism as folly. By the early 'jaded years' of ... «Spiked, Jul 15»
3
'Narnia's' Ben Barnes Travels to HBO's 'Westworld'
Set in an amusement park where guests can fulfill their wildest fantasies via lifelike robots, the story follows Logan, a pleasure-seeking repeat ... «Comic Book Resources, Jul 15»
4
What Your Favorite Cheese Says About You — And Don't You Dare …
... wedding Pinterest board, and watching reruns of Sex In The City. Your own core-four describe you as sweet and pleasure-seeking, maybe even a little soft. «Bustle, Jul 15»
5
How To Be More Sex-Positive, According To 'Just Between Us' Stars …
It's about ethics and self-development rather than simple pleasure-seeking.” You must be comfortable enough with yourself to allow ... «Bustle, Jul 15»
6
Earl Sweatshirt on Hollywood parties, deconstructing Hermann …
“That shit was crazy.” Indeed, after incarceration in Samoa and the strictures of a long-term relationship, Earl was primed for pleasure-seeking. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
7
Barrafina boys: Sam and Eddie Hart
Because they have the pleasure-seeking appetites, luscious dark hair and sparkling eyes of manzanilla-fuelled Andalucians — and because ... «Evening Standard, Jul 15»
8
Review: 'The Wild Party,' With Sutton Foster as a Louche Jazz Baby
Its pleasure-seeking characters — gathered for a night of sex, drugs and all that jazz at the home of Queenie (Ms. Foster), a vaudeville dancer, ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
9
Take the bull by the horns with lavender essential oil
In this week's entry I dive head first into the stubborn and pleasure-seeking Bull. The typical Taurus individual may display signs of tension in ... «Sierra Sun, Jul 15»
10
Plane Stupid: return of the snobs
Far from being the preserve of wealthy pleasure seekers, Heathrow, and air travel in general, is increasingly serving the pleasure-seeking ends ... «Spiked, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Pleasure-Seeking [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/pleasure-seeking>. Apr 2024 ».
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