Associations to the word «Amenity»

Wiktionary

AMENITY, noun. Pleasantness.
AMENITY, noun. A thing or circumstance that is welcome and makes life a little easier or more pleasant.
AMENITY, noun. Convenience.
AMENITY, noun. (cartography) a unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library etc.

Dictionary definition

AMENITY, noun. Pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions; "a well trained staff saw to the agreeableness of our accommodations"; "he discovered the amenities of reading at an early age".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats