enjoyment

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Etymology[edit]

enjoy +‎ -ment

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪmənt/, /ənˈd͡ʒɔɪmənt/, /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪmənt/
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Noun[edit]

enjoyment (countable and uncountable, plural enjoyments)

  1. (uncountable) The condition of enjoying anything.
    Few activities better the enjoyment of a hearty meal eaten in good company.
  2. (uncountable) An enjoyable state of mind.
    • 1833, John Stuart Mill, Remarks on Bentham's Philosophy:
      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.
  3. (countable) An activity that gives pleasure.
    • 1885, John Ormsby, Don Quixote, translation of original by Miguel de Cervantes, published 1605, 1615:
      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?
  4. (law) The exercise of a legal right.

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