enjoyment

Etymology

enjoy + -ment

noun

  1. (uncountable) The condition of enjoying anything.
    Few activities better the enjoyment of a hearty meal eaten in good company.
    Our Republic continues to increase in the enjoyment of freedom within its borders, and to offer strength and encouragement to all those who love freedom throughout the world. January 4 1950, Harry S. Truman, Fifth State of the Union Address
  2. (uncountable) An enjoyable state of mind.
    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. 1833, John Stuart Mill, Remarks on Bentham's Philosophy
  3. (countable) An activity that gives pleasure.
    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? 1885, John Ormsby, Don Quixote, translation of original by Miguel de Cervantes, published 1605, 1615
  4. (law) The exercise of a legal right.

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