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countable and uncountable, plural jouissances
(obsolete) Enjoyment, delight, pleasure. quotations
friendship is enjoyed according as it is desired, it is neither bred, nor nourished, nor increaseth but in jovissance, as being spirituall, and the minde being refined by use and custome.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
In poststructuralism, a transgressive, excessive kind of pleasure linked to the division and splitting of the subject involved. examples