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"pleasure" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often enjoyment (9 letters).
Definitions
Enjoyment, delight, satisfaction, or agreeable feeling.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“He remembered with pleasure his home and family.”
“I get a lot of pleasure from watching others work hard while I relax.”
“But the only statistic that will concern West Brom will be the scoreline, and their manager Roy Hodgson will take considerable pleasure from a victory over the club he managed for just 191 days.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Delight or enjoyment”8 letters
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