unpleasurableness

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Character, consisting of individual dispositions and habits, is either inherited from ancestors or acquired by past activity; motives arise from the pleasurableness or unpleasurableness of the action and its object, or from the external environment.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913