antipleasure

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

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"The old saw that if it feels too good it's probably illegal, immoral, or fattening is no joke. Deep down inside, many of us believe it. In fact, our entire culture, with its roots in Puritanism, has a distinct antipleasure bias."
"To the degree that the church has been antisexual and antipleasure, it has failed to be consistent with our understanding of what the Bible has to say about sex within marriage."

From anti- + pleasure.

more antipleasure (comparative) most antipleasure (superlative)

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