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enjoyment
CIDE DICTIONARY
enjoyment, n.
- The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate. [1913 Webster]
- That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction. [1913 Webster]"The hope of everlasting enjoyments."
Syn. -- Pleasure; satisfaction; gratification; fruition; happiness; felicity; delight.
THESAURUS
enjoyment
advantage, amusement, animal pleasure, benefit, bodily pleasure, carnal delight, comfort, content, contentment, coziness, creature comforts, delectation, delight, diversion, divertisement, divertissement, ease, endpleasure, entertainment, euphoria, exercise, forepleasure, fruition, fun, gratification, great satisfaction, gusto, hearty enjoyment, indulgence, intellectual pleasure, joie de vivre, joy, keen pleasure, kicks, luxury, mirth, passe-temps, pastime, physical pleasure, pleasure, possession, quiet pleasure, recreation, regalement, relaxation, relish, satisfaction, savor, self-gratification, self-indulgence, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, sexual pleasure, solace, sweetness of life, titillation, use, utilization, voluptuousness, well-being, zestROGET THESAURUS
enjoyment
Pleasure
N pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition, oblectation, delectation, delection, relish, zest, gusto, satisfaction, complacency, well-being, good, snugness, comfort, ease, cushion, sans souci, without worry, mind at ease, joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine, cheerfulness, treat, refreshment, amusement, luxury, mens sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a sound body, happiness, felicity, bliss, beatitude, beautification, enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy, summum bonum, paradise, elysium, third heaven, seventh heaven, cloud nine, unalloyed happiness, hedonics, hedonism, honeymoon, palmy days, halcyon days, golden age, golden time, Dixie, Dixie's land, Saturnia regna, Arcadia, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone, pleased, not sorry, glad, gladsome, pleased as Punch, happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified, happy as a clam at high water, happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus, enjoying, joyful, hedonic, in a blissful state, in paradise, in raptures, in ecstasies, in a transport of delight, comfortable, at ease, content, sans souci, overjoyed, entranced, enchanted, enraptures, enravished, transported, fascinated, captivated, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, pleasing, ecstatic, beatic, painless, unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless, happily, with pleasure, with glee, one's heart leaping with joy, a wilderness of sweets, I wish you all the joy that you can wish, jour de ma vie, joy ruled the day and love the night, joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt, oh happiness, our being's end and aim!, there is a pleasure that is born of pain, throned on highest bliss, vedi Napoli e poi muori, zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke nicht weit, the bridge between joy and sorrow is not wide.For further exploring for "enjoyment" in Webster Dictionary Online