pleasurable

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Pleasurable signals are blunted, but unpleasable signals are enhanced.

From Scientific American • Aug. 11, 2015

Pleasurable because the experience makes us feel smarter.

From Forbes • Oct. 15, 2014

Pleasurable sensations either stimulate no action at all, or at most stimulate such action as is likely to prolong them.

From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand

Pleasurable exhilaration in society is obtained from those who impart, like warmth, their own spontaneous vivacity.

From His Sombre Rivals by Roe, Edward Payson

Pleasurable as this may be in fiction, in the theater it is disastrous.

From How to See a Play by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir