pleasure
n. C / Un. a feeling of happiness, enjoyment, or satisfaction. You can also use it to describe something that makes you feel good, like a hobby or a nice meal.
n. a state of feeling or being happy or satisfied; a source of enjoyment or delight.
Reading a good book gives me great pleasure.
It was a pleasure to meet the new neighbors at the community garden yesterday.
The philosopher argued that true pleasure is found not in fleeting physical sensations but in the quiet satisfaction of a life lived with purpose.
From Early Modern English pleasur, plesur, alteration (with ending accommodated to -ure) of Middle English plaisir (“pleasure”), from Old French plesir, plaisir (“to please”), infinitive used as a noun, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin placeō (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-k- (“wide and flat”). Related to Dutch plezier (“pleasure, fun”). More at please.
Uncountable when referring to the general feeling of enjoyment; countable when referring to a specific activity or event that causes enjoyment.
It was my pleasure of meeting youIt was my pleasure to meet youWhen used as a polite social formula, the noun is followed by a to-infinitive rather than a prepositional phrase.