Unpleasurable

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    That gives displeasure.

    "Before the advent of resensation there exists neither the known nor the unknown, only pleasurable, comfortable, or unpleasurable sensations which come and go. With resensation there arises the division into the familiar and the new, the unknown."

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"Before the advent of resensation there exists neither the known nor the unknown, only pleasurable, comfortable, or unpleasurable sensations which come and go. With resensation there arises the division into the familiar and the new, the unknown."

Etymology

From un- + pleasurable.

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