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Pleasure-Displeasure

Dynamics:
Can you learn to live ? Yes, if you are not happy. There is no virtue in felicity. (Colette)
Broader:
Feeling*complex
Narrower:
Joy
Fun
Zest
Love
Ease
Charm
Bliss
Luxury
Gaiety
Rapture
Elation
Ecstasy
Delight
Comfort
Radiance
Pleasure
Gladness
Felicity
Happiness
Enjoyment
Beatitude
Adoration
Joyfulness
Exuberance
Exaltation
Enchantment
Contentment
Blessedness
Satisfaction
Exhilaration
Cheerfulness
Appreciation
Gratification
Entertainment
Beatification
Comfortableness
High-spiritedness
Luck
Nonfulfilment
Inviability
Selfishness
Unpopularity
Heartache
Discomfort
Dislike
Uninvited
Disenchantment
Agony
Unluckiness
Horror
Angst
Unwanted
Disconsolation
Infelicity
Persecution
Dread
Crankiness
Tease
Curse
Discontent
Dissatisfaction
Emptiness
Wretched
Unvalued
Unmet
Displeasure
Unhappiness
Malaise
Dysphoria
Lovelessness
Consolation
Likable
Subjects:
Recreation
Type Classification:
P: Value polarities

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a collaboration between UIA and Mankind 2000, started in 1972. It is the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on the problems with which humanity is confronted, as well as the challenges such problems pose to concept formation, values and development strategies.  Problems included are those identified in international periodicals but especially in the documents of some 60,000 international non-profit organizations, profiled in the Yearbook of International Organizations.

The Encyclopedia includes problems which such groups choose to perceive and act upon, whether or not their existence is denied by others claiming greater expertise. Indeed such claims and counter-claims figure in many of the problem descriptions in order to reflect the often paralyzing dynamics of international debate. In the light of the interdependence demonstrated among world problems in every sector, emphasis is placed on the need for approaches which are sufficiently complex to encompass the factions, conflicts and rival worldviews that undermine collective initiative towards a promising future.

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Non-profit, apolitical, independent, and non-governmental in nature, the UIA has been a pioneer in the research, monitoring and provision of information on international organizations, international associations and their global challenges since 1907.

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