Candy vs. Pleasure — What's the Difference?

Candy is typically enjoyed as a snack or dessert.

Pleasure is a feeling of happiness or contentment.

Candy often contains sugar and flavorings.

Pleasure involves a positive emotional response to stimuli.

Candy can be chewy or hard.

Pleasure can be transient or lasting.

Candy, also called sweets (British English) or lollies (Australian English, New Zealand English), is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, called sugar confectionery, encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy.

Pleasure refers to experience that feels good, that involves the enjoyment of something. It contrasts with pain or suffering, which are forms of feeling bad.

A rich sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits or nuts.

A feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment

A piece of such a confection.

Used or intended for entertainment rather than business

(Slang) An illicit drug, especially one, such as cocaine, that has a sugary appearance or a drug in pill form, such as MDMA.

Give sexual enjoyment or satisfaction to

To cook, preserve, saturate, or coat with sugar or syrup

The state or feeling of being pleased or gratified.

Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.

A source of enjoyment or delight

A piece of confectionery of this kind.

Amusement, diversion, or worldly enjoyment

Crack cocaine.

Sensual gratification or indulgence.

(uncountable) An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.

One's preference or wish

(obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

To give pleasure or enjoyment to; gratify

(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.

To take pleasure; delight

(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.

To go in search of pleasure or enjoyment.

(intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

(uncountable) A state of being pleased or contented; gratification.

To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

(countable) A person, thing or action that causes enjoyment.

To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.

(uncountable) One's preference.

To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.

The will or desire of someone or some agency in power.

To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

Pleased to meet you, "It's my pleasure"

To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

(transitive) To give or afford pleasure to.

Any sweet, more or less solid article of confectionery, especially those prepared in small bite-sized pieces or small bars, having a wide variety of shapes, consistencies, and flavors, and manufactured in a variety of ways. It is often flavored or colored, or covered with chocolate, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.; it is often made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. Other types may consist primarily of chocolate or a sweetened gelatin. The term may be applied to a single piece of such confection or to the substance of which it is composed.

(transitive) To give sexual pleasure to.

Cocaine.

To take pleasure; to seek or pursue pleasure.

A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or satisfying; - opposed to pain, sorrow, etc.

A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

Amusement; sport; diversion; self-indulgence; frivolous or dissipating enjoyment; hence, sensual gratification; - opposed to labor, service, duty, self-denial, etc.

Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

What the will dictates or prefers as gratifying or satisfying; hence, will; choice; wish; purpose.

Candy is a sweet-tasting confection.

That which pleases; a favor; a gratification.

Candy comes in various shapes, sizes, and colors.

To give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify.

To take pleasure; to seek pursue pleasure; as, to go pleasuring.

A fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience;

Something or someone that provides pleasure; a source of happiness;

A formal expression;

An activity that affords enjoyment;

Sexual gratification;

Pleasure can be derived from various experiences and sensations.

Pleasure can be sensory, intellectual, or aesthetic.

Candy is a tangible object, specifically a sweet-tasting confection.

Yes, many people derive sensory pleasure from the sweetness and flavor of candy.

Pleasure represents a feeling of happiness, enjoyment, or satisfaction derived from experiences or activities.