absence of pain

is itself a pleasure, and of the highest order; there is no neutral state of feeling between pleasure and pain.

Recast in definition form from: “Epicurus consequently maintained that there is no such thing as a neutral state of feeling intermediate between pleasure and pain; for the state supposed by some thinkers to be neutral, being characterized as it is by entire absence of pain, is itself, he held, a pleasure, and, what is more, a pleasure of the highest order.”

absence of pain, n.Definitions

absence of pain