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enjoyment en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ.mənt/
• /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ.mənt/
• /ənˈd͡ʒɔɪ.mənt/

Etymology

From enjoy + -ment.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The condition of enjoying anything.
   • 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. 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:
   • 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. 1950 January 4, Harry S. Truman, Fifth State of the Union Address:
   • Few activities better the enjoyment of a hearty meal eaten in good company.
2. (uncountable) An enjoyable state of mind; a feeling of satisfaction or delight from a situation.
   • I experienced more enjoyment from summer camp than any part of school.
   • 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. (countable, uncountable) The exercise of a legal right.

Forms

Deriveds

unenjoyment · disenjoyment · reenjoyment

Relateds

happiness · hedonism · joy · amusement

Translations (59)

bg наслада (the condition of enjoying anything) · de Genuss (the condition of enjoying anything) · ota جنبش (the condition of enjoying anything) · pl uciecha (the condition of enjoying anything) · mi ngahautanga (the condition of enjoying anything) · nv ił honeeni (the condition of enjoying anything) · es gozamiento (the condition of enjoying anything) · fi mielihyvä (the condition of enjoying anything) · pl zadowolenie (the condition of enjoying anything) · uk насоло́да (the condition of enjoying anything) · fi nautinto (the condition of enjoying anything) · ko 기쁨 (the condition of enjoying anything) · cmn 愉快 (the condition of enjoying anything) · pt gozo (the condition of enjoying anything) · ota رامش (the condition of enjoying anything) · sq ëndje (the condition of enjoying anything) · es holganza (the condition of enjoying anything) · es gozo (the condition of enjoying anything) · hi मज़ा (the condition of enjoying anything) · hu öröm (the condition of enjoying anything) · es regocijo (the condition of enjoying anything) · he הֲנָאָה (the condition of enjoying anything) · ru наслажде́ние (the condition of enjoying anything) · ar مُتْعَة (the condition of enjoying anything) · uk задово́лення (the condition of enjoying anything) · bg радост (the condition of enjoying anything) · ota كیف (the condition of enjoying anything) · cmn 享受 (the condition of enjoying anything) · fa خشنودی (the condition of enjoying anything) · es disfrute (the condition of enjoying anything) · ja 楽しみ (the condition of enjoying anything) · ko 즐거움 (the condition of enjoying anything) · uk приє́мність (the condition of enjoying anything) · grc τέρψις (the condition of enjoying anything) · hi आनंद (the condition of enjoying anything) · hu élvezet (the condition of enjoying anything) · la iūcunditās (the condition of enjoying anything) · uk уті́ха (the condition of enjoying anything) · txb winālñe (the condition of enjoying anything) · th ความเพลิดเพลิน (the condition of enjoying anything) · la frūctus (the condition of enjoying anything) · be уце́ха (the condition of enjoying anything) · fa لذت (the condition of enjoying anything) · cmn 樂趣 /乐趣 (the condition of enjoying anything) · ru удово́льствие (the condition of enjoying anything) · uk усоло́да (the condition of enjoying anything) · fr jouissance (the condition of enjoying anything) · pl przyjemność (the condition of enjoying anything) · eo ĝuo (the condition of enjoying anything) · fr plaisir (the condition of enjoying anything) · be асало́да (the condition of enjoying anything) · be прые́мнасць (the condition of enjoying anything) · ar مِتْعَة (the condition of enjoying anything) · te భోగించుట (the condition of enjoying anything) · bg удоволствие (the condition of enjoying anything) · sv njutning (the condition of enjoying anything) · es gozadera (the condition of enjoying anything) · de Vergnügen (the condition of enjoying anything) · grc ἀπόλαυσις (the condition of enjoying anything)