AMENITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amenity mean? 

• AMENITY (noun)
  The noun AMENITY has 1 sense:

1. pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions

  Familiarity information: AMENITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMENITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

agreeableness; amenity

Context example:

he discovered the amenities of reading at an early age

Hypernyms ("amenity" is a kind of...):

pleasantness; sweetness (the quality of giving pleasure)

 Context examples 

But all amenities were wasted upon the angry German.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By this time all the amenities and gentlenesses of the Southland had fallen away from the three people.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The humanities and amenities of life had no attraction for him—its peaceful enjoyments no charm.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was no bar-keeper upon whom to call for drinks, no small boy to send around the corner for a can of beer and by means of that social fluid start the amenities of friendship flowing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)