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

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.