Usually means: Intense pleasure, pain, ecstatic enjoyment.
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  1. jouissance: Merriam-Webster
  2. jouissance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jouissance: Wordnik
  4. jouissance: Wiktionary
  5. Jouissance: Dictionary.com
  6. Jouissance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Jouissance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. jouissance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Jouissance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. jouissance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. jouissance: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Jouissance: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. jouissance: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (jouissance)

noun:  (obsolete) Enjoyment, delight, pleasure.
noun:  (poststructuralism) A transgressive, excessive kind of pleasure linked to the division and splitting of the subject involved.

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