amenity
2 synonyms and 1 antonym for amenity, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A pleasant quality or feeling.
Synonyms
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agreeableness
Synonyms by Meaning
1. noun
A pleasant quality or feeling.
“We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday.”
agreeableness
Opposites
2. noun
A useful public facility in a neighbourhood, such as a toilet, a postbox or a library.
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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