Eudaimonic Pleasure (cf. Pyrrhic Pleasure)​

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1. A subcategory of pleasure that stands independently of any prior or concurrent painience, deriving its quality and value entirely from its own nature rather than from contrast with suffering.

2. Pleasure that would exist and retain its full value even in the complete absence of painience, requiring no shadow of pain to give it meaning.

3. The form of pleasure whose intensity and quality is not borrowed from the relief of suffering but is intrinsic to the experience itself.

4. Pleasure that mirrors needed-pain in its structural independence from resistance — it neither requires nor is amplified by the presence of suffering.

5. The subcategory of pleasure available to a being fully at peace with reality, uncontingent on the resolution of any unwanted prior state.

6. Positive valence experience whose value is self-contained, arising from direct engagement with life rather than from the release of or contrast with painience.

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See Pleasure And Panience: The Distinctions