ENJOYMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enjoyment mean? 

• ENJOYMENT (noun)
  The noun ENJOYMENT has 3 senses:

1. the pleasure felt when having a good time

2. act of receiving pleasure from something

3. (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property

  Familiarity information: ENJOYMENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENJOYMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The pleasure felt when having a good time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

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

pleasance; pleasure (a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enjoyment"):

joie de vivre (a keen enjoyment of living)

gusto; relish; zest; zestfulness (vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment)

Derivation:

enjoy (take delight in)

enjoy (derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in)

enjoy (get pleasure from)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Act of receiving pleasure from something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

delectation; enjoyment

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

activity (any specific behavior)

Derivation:

enjoy (take delight in)

enjoy (derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in)

enjoy (get pleasure from)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

enjoyment; use

Context example:

we were given the use of his boat

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

legal right (a right based in law)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enjoyment"):

fair use (the conditions under which you can use material that is copyrighted by someone else without paying royalties)

fruition (enjoyment derived from use or possession)

Derivation:

enjoy (have benefit from)

 Context examples 

We cannot suppose that she has any great enjoyment at the Vicarage, my dear Emma—but it is better than being always at home.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I never saw such a good old fellow to make the best of a thing, and find out the enjoyment of it, as Mr. Omer.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Miss Crawford's enjoyment of riding was such that she did not know how to leave off.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way—even by death—and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We were only in anxiety and distress during the last two hours, and previously there had been a great deal of enjoyment.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

And now I looked much better than I did when Bessie saw me; I had more colour and more flesh, more life, more vivacity, because I had brighter hopes and keener enjoyments.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This was a source of enjoyment to him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He denied himself the enjoyments that most boys indulge in.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is also a duty owed to yourself, for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society.”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)