📚 Jouissance, noun. ❓ Definition (formal • mass noun): Physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy. ❗️ Examples: 1. He looks just exploding with jouissance, wouldn't you say. 2. And I had a stab of sheer jouissance because I knew what I was about to do. 3. I see accessible, crowd-pleasing entertainment that is rich with meaning and jouissance. 4. The jouissance of this movie lies in what we learn about acting, not about human evil. 5. I can feel the jouissance as she reads what has come to her, the deep ecstasy that writing has occasioned, even though the subject is grief, death. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic