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Amenity
//əˈmɛnəti// noun
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Noun
- 1 Pleasantness. countable, uncountable
"We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday."
- 2 pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions wordnet
- 3 A thing or circumstance that is welcome and makes life a little easier or more pleasant. countable, uncountable
"All the little amenities the hotel provided made our stay very enjoyable."
- 4 Convenience. countable, uncountable
- 5 A unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library, etc. countable, uncountable
"Suburbia was the prescribed antidote to the dreariness of the hypertrophied industrial city—and most American cities had never been anything but that. They were short on amenity, overcrowded, and artless. Americans were sick of them and saw no way to improve them."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English amenite, amenyte, partly from Middle French amenité and partly from its etymon, Latin amoenitās (“pleasantness, delightfulness”), from amoenus (“pleasant, delightful”), of unknown origin.
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