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pleasurable

adjective as in delightful

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Queuing for "pleasurable activities" - like shopping for luxury items, a bargain, or delicious food - creates a "distinctly different" feeling to queuing for something more mundane like buying your groceries, she says.

From BBC

“When you say ‘reading for pleasure,’ you make the assumption that reading is pleasurable,” Laughlin said.

Dopamine is also known as the "happy hormone" because it is activated when something is pleasurable or we feel rewarded.

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But they always look so huge and larger-than-life and confident, and I think that’s maybe why being able to figure myself out on camera after coming from the stage has been so pleasurable.

"The sittings were extremely pleasurable on my part," he said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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