Amenity

Quick meaning: Amenity is a noun meaning Pleasantness.

Meaning

Pleasantness.

More Meanings

1. A thing or circumstance that is welcome and makes life a little easier or more pleasant.
2. Convenience.
3. (cartography) A unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library, etc.

Example Sentences

We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday.

All the little amenities the hotel provided made our stay very enjoyable.

The complex includes the usual utilities (gas and electricity) and amenities like wifi and a gym (toilets with toiletries included too).

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.

Word Forms

• amenities

Synonyms for amenity

Depending on context, synonyms include facility, infrastructure, agreeableness.

Antonyms for amenity

Common opposites include disagreeableness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include agreeableness, pleasure, beautification, recreation, convenience, approval.

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