amenity
amenities
Like built-in GPS, seat warmers and four-wheel drive, an amenity is a feature that contributes to comfort or value. Or in another sense, it's the overall pleasantness that results from all those cool features.
Declared the American novelist Edith Wharton, “I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.” As you can see, people throughout time have gotten cranky when they’ve felt their amenities to be lacking.
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something that provides value, pleasure, or convenience
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type of:
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luxury
something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity
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luxury
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pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions“he discovered the amenities of reading at an early age”
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synonyms:
agreeableness
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Antonyms:
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disagreeableness
the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant
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type of:
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pleasantness, sweetness
the quality of giving pleasure
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disagreeableness
Vocabulary lists containing amenity
Teenagers Penelope and Xander navigate first love and family matters while working at Penelope's father's restaurant.
Eighteen-year-old Caroline moves from Wisconsin to New York City to pursue her dreams of stardom.
In the first book of The Inheritance Cycle, a fifteen-year-old boy finds a dragon egg in the woods and becomes a Dragon Rider.
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