enjoyment
Etymology Pronunciation
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Etymology Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪmənt/, /ənˈd͡ʒɔɪmənt/, /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪmənt/
enjoyment
- (uncountable) The condition of enjoying anything.
- Few activities better the enjoyment of a hearty meal eaten in good company.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗:
- Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
- (uncountable) An enjoyable state of mind.
- (countable) An activity that gives pleasure.
- (legal) The exercise of a legal right.
- French: jouissance, plaisir
- German: Genuss, Vergnügen
- Portuguese: gozo
- Russian: наслажде́ние
- Spanish: disfrute, gozo, regocijo, holganza
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