Definition of AMENITY

amenity

Plural: amenities

Noun

  • A desirable or useful feature that provides comfort or pleasure.
  • pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions
  • Pleasantness.
  • A thing or circumstance that is welcome and makes life a little easier or more pleasant.
  • Convenience.
  • A unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library, etc.

Examples

  • A triple word score is an AMENITY every Scrabble player hopes to find.
  • All the little amenities the hotel provided made our stay very enjoyable.
  • We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday.

Origin / Etymology

Inherited from Middle English amenite, amenyte, partly from Middle French amenité and partly from its etymon, Latin amoenitās (“pleasantness, delightfulness”), from amoenus (“pleasant, delightful”), of unknown origin.

Antonyms

disagreeableness

Scrabble Score: 12

amenity: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
amenity: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
amenity: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

amenity: valid Words With Friends Word