enjoyment

[en·joy·ment]

Enjoyment is what you experience when you are having a good time. You probably experience enjoyment in an amusement park, and a lack of enjoyment at the dentist.

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The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate.

Noun
act of receiving pleasure from something

Noun
(law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property; "we were given the use of his boat"

Noun
the pleasure felt when having a good time


n.
The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate.

n.
That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction.


Enjoyment

En*joy"ment , n. 1. The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate. 2. That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction.
The hope of everlasting enjoyments.
Syn. -- Pleasure; satisfaction; gratification; fruition; happiness; felicity; delight.

The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate.

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Usage Examples

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

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Other Usage Examples

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

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