amenity

n., pl., -ties.

1. The quality of being pleasant or attractive; agreeableness.
2. Something that contributes to physical or material comfort.
3. A feature that increases attractiveness or value, especially of a piece of real estate or a geographic location.
4. amenities Social courtesies.

[Middle English amenite, from Old French, from Latin amoenitās, from amoenus, pleasant.]

SYNONYMS   amenity, comfort, convenience, facility. These nouns denote something that increases physical ease or facilitates work: an apartment with amenities like air conditioning; a suite with all the comforts of home; a kitchen with every convenience; a school with excellent facilities.

noun

1. The quality of being pleasant and friendly: affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amiability, amiableness, congeniality, congenialness, cordiality, cordialness, friendliness, geniality, genialness, pleasantness, sociability, sociableness, warmth. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude, good/bad.
2. Anything that increases physical comfort: comfort, convenience, facility (often used in plural). See comfort/discomfort.
3. A courteous act or courteous acts that contribute to smoothness and ease in dealings and social relationships civility, courtesy, pleasantry, politeness, propriety (used in plural). See courtesy/discourtesy.

n

Definition: pleasant thing
Antonyms: abomination, inconvenience

n

Definition: pleasing, agreeable behavior
Antonyms: disruption, misbehavior

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Pleasantness; those aspects of an area such as housing, space, and recreational and leisure activities which make it an attractive place to live in. By this definition, a 1995 survey found that Henley-on-Thames had the highest amenity of any town in the UK.

Term denoting, in a very broad way, the public benefits accruing from the condition of a place, such as aesthetic beauty, clean air and water, or good street lighting. The function of the concept of amenity is therefore to embrace those factors in a decision about environmental development which are excluded from, and sometimes in contradiction to, considerations of commercial productivity.

In UK politics, the ‘amenity clause’—a requirement that public bodies pay due regard to the interests of amenity—was first mentioned in legislation concerned with hydroelectric power in Scotland in 1943. It became a general duty of all public bodies with respect to the countryside in 1968, though the requirement necessarily weakened during the acts of privatization during the 1980s, being replaced by a number of regulative and ‘watchdog’ bodies.

The ‘amenity movement’ refers to private organizations defending the interests of amenity, especially pressure groups concerned with particular towns or areas. The number of these grew rapidly in the 1970s. See also public good.

— Lincoln Allison

IN BRIEF: Something that makes life more pleasant.

The fancy hotel offered every amenity.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - bekvemmelighed, behagelighed

Nederlands (Dutch)
aantrekkelijkheid, (mv) gemakken van iets

Français (French)
n. - charme, agrément

Deutsch (German)
n. - Annehmlichkeit, Reiz

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αβρότητα, χάρη, (πληθ.) ανέσεις, ευκολίες

Italiano (Italian)
amenità, gentilezze

Português (Portuguese)
n. - amenidade (f), afabilidade (f), encanto (m), deleite (m)

Русский (Russian)
удобство, прелесть

Español (Spanish)
n. - amenidad, afabilidad, comodidad

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - behaglighet, bekvämlighet

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
优雅, 适意, 舒适, 福利设施, 文化设施, 便利设施, 愉快, 礼仪, 礼节

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 優雅, 適意, 舒適, 福利設施, 文化設施, 便利設施, 愉快, 禮儀, 禮節

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 쾌적, 얌전함

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 快適にする設備, 快適さ, 礼儀

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) لطافه, لياقه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ברבים: נעימות, נוחות‬

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