amenity
- noun
- /əˈmɛnɪti/
- Clearly, there have been significant improvements related to the amenity level of many nursing facilities.
- environmental amenities
- social amenities
- amenity value
Examples
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Clearly, there is some kind of relationship between private property and environmental amenities.
Academic text (2004) -
The price of housing differs across metro areas for many reasons, including differences in population and growth, amenities such as climate, and local government regulations.
Academic text (2017) -
In Cincinnati, the refurbished Washington Park is now a neighborhood amenity with an underground parking garage to support nearby development.
Blog text (7) -
Fifty acres, or half the original site, serve as tropical parkland, an amenity for the surrounding skyscrapers.
Academic text (1998) -
To enhance patient amenity, dayrooms are located overlooking a five-story atrium with magnificent views across the East River.
Academic text (1996) -
Outpatient centers must incorporate patient amenities that were never imagined thirty years ago, such as exercise areas, juice bars, and alcoves for private conversation.
Academic text (1996) -
Access to places that are well located in relation to economic opportunities, as well as to health, educational, and social amenities, plays a central role in both the allocative and integrative capacities of citizenship.
Academic text (1998) -
Kingsport is home to Marriott's www.MeadowViewResort.com and thousands of acres of unique natural amenities at Bays Mountain and Warriors Path Parks.
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Others are absentee landowners who embrace the amenity value of rearing stock but who also seek the supplementary income of traditional commodities such as wool or beef.
Academic text (2008) -
The new apartment complex includes several amenities that make it a pleasant place to live.
Synonyms
A feeling that something is nice and enjoyable
A quality that makes people feel great pleasure
A feeling of being relaxed and at ease with people or places
A pleasant feeling from nice surroundings or conditions
How much fun something is
Antonyms
A quality of being unpleasant and hard to get along with that makes people avoid you
How Pleasant
Surface Forms
Etymology
Amenity comes from an old Latin word amoenus meaning 'pleasant'. That is why amenity can also mean the quality of being pleasant or agreeable in a place or situation.