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enjoyment

noun
/ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ.mənt/

Etymology

From enjoy + -ment.

  1. derived from enjoier
  2. inherited from enjoyen
  3. suffixed as enjoyment — “enjoy + ment”

Definitions

  1. The condition of enjoying anything.

    • Few activities better the enjoyment of a hearty meal eaten in good company.
    • Our Republic continues to increase in the enjoyment of freedom within its borders, and to offer strength and encouragement to all those who love freedom throughout the world.

  2. An enjoyable state of mind

    An enjoyable state of mind; a feeling of satisfaction or delight from a situation.

    • I experienced more enjoyment from summer camp than any part of school.
    • All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts.

  3. An activity that gives pleasure.

    • Is it, haply, an idle occupation, or is the time ill-spent that is spent in roaming the world in quest, not of its enjoyments, but of those arduous toils whereby the good mount upwards to the abodes of everlasting life?
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The exercise of a legal right.

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Derived

disenjoyment, reenjoyment, unenjoyment

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at enjoyment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01enjoyment02pleasure03sexual04fact05further06distant07television08entertainment

A definitional loop anchored at enjoyment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at enjoyment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA