Definition of "pleasure-pain" []

• In psychology, a collective term for pleasant and unpleasant affective processes. (noun)
• In psychology, relating to the pleasant and unpleasant affective processes, collectively regarded: as, pleasure-pain theories, pleasure-pain experiments.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The pleasure-pain of fingers tickling down my spine."
• "Let us, for example, consider a fundamental polarity, pleasure-pain."
• "In the field of the emotions and feelings we find those dualities which are familiar to all: pleasure-pain; excitement-depression; confidence-fear; attraction-repulsion; love-hate."