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amenity

1 antonym for amenity — opposites grouped by meaning.

Noun — A pleasant quality or feeling.

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1. noun

A pleasant quality or feeling.

“We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday.”

agreeableness

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2. noun

A useful public facility in a neighbourhood, such as a toilet, a postbox or a library.

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English amenite, amenyte, partly from Middle French amenité and partly from its source, Latin amoenitās, meaning ‘pleasantness, delightfulness’, from amoenus, meaning ‘pleasant, delightful’, itself of unknown origin.

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