Pleasure (cf. Painience)

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(includes both EUDAIMONIC PLEASURE and PYRRHIC PLEASURE)

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1. The superordinate category encompassing all positively valenced human experience, whether arising independently of painience or contingent upon it.

2. The full spectrum of wanted, welcomed, or intrinsically satisfying experience, inclusive of both its self-contained and relief-dependent forms.

3. Any felt experience whose quality signals the presence of something desired or valued, whether that signal arises from contrast with painience or from its own inherent nature.

4. The genus of which eudaimonic pleasure and pyrrhic pleasure are the two exhaustive and mutually exclusive species.

5. All experience characterized by positive valence, regardless of whether its source is independent engagement with life or the release of resistance and suffering.

6. The domain of human experience standing in contrast to painience, encompassing both its intrinsic and contingent expressions.

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See Pleasure And Panience: The Distinctions