Enjoyment

/ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ.mənt/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) The condition of enjoying anything..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The condition of enjoying anything.
2. (uncountable) An enjoyable state of mind; a feeling of satisfaction or delight from a situation.
3. (countable) An activity that gives pleasure.
4. (law) The exercise of a legal right.

Example Sentences

Few activities better the enjoyment of a hearty meal eaten in good company.

Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.

Our Republic continues to increase in the enjoyment of freedom within its borders, and to offer strength and encouragement to all those who love freedom throughout the world.

I experienced more enjoyment from summer camp than any part of school.

All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts.

Is it, haply, an idle occupation, or is the time ill-spent that is spent in roaming the world in quest, not of its enjoyments, but of those arduous toils whereby the good mount upwards to the abodes of everlasting life?

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