Pyrrhic Pleasure (cf. Eudaimonic Pleasure)​

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1. A subcategory of pleasure whose existence and intensity is contingent upon the prior or concurrent presence of suffering or unwanted experience.

2. Pleasure that functions as the relief or redemption of accumulated painience, deriving its quality and magnitude from the contrast with what preceded or surrounds it.

3. The form of pleasure available to one who has been waiting for something to be over, whose sweetness is borrowed from the bitterness it concludes.

4. Pleasure that mirrors suffering in its structure — as suffering arises from resistance to reality, pyrrhic pleasure arises from the release of that resistance, and could not exist without it.

5. A subcategory of pleasure that would be absent or negligible if the suffering preceding it had never occurred, revealing its dependence on painience for its very existence.

6. The form of pleasure in which the win, however real, is shadowed by the recognition that the cost of attaining it was the suffering of the journey itself.

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See Pleasure And Panience: The Distinctions