Synonyms for enjoyment
ɛnˈdʒɔɪ mənten·joy·ment

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1. enjoyment

   Entertainment and recreation imply thought and mental occupation, tho in an agreeable, refreshing way; they are therefore words of a high order. Entertainment, apart from its special senses of a public performance or a social party, and predominantly even there, is used of somewhat mirthful mental delight; recreation may, and usually does, combine the mental with the physical. Amusement and pastime are nearly equivalent, the latter probably the lighter word; many slight things may be pastimes which we should hardly dignify by the name of amusements. Sports are almost wholly on the physical plane, tho involving a certain grade of mental action; fox-hunting, horse-racing, and baseball are sports. Certain sports may afford entertainment or recreation to certain persons, according to their individual tastes; but entertainment and recreation are capable of a meaning so high as never to be approached by any meaning of sport. Cheer may be very quiet, as the cheer of a bright fire to an aged traveler; merriment is with liveliness and laughter; fun and frolic are apt to be boisterous. Amusement is a form of enjoyment, but enjoyment may be too keen to be called amusement. Compare synonyms for ENTERTAIN.

   Synonyms:
   amusement, cheer, delight, diversion, entertainment, frolic, fun, merriment, pastime, pleasure, recreation, sport

   Antonyms:
   ennui, fatigue, labor, lassitude, toil, weariness, work

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. enjoymentnoun

   the pleasure felt when having a good time

   Synonyms:
   use, delectation

2. enjoyment, delectationnoun

   act of receiving pleasure from something

   Synonyms:
   use, delectation, delight

3. use, enjoymentnoun

   (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property

   "we were given the use of his boat"

   Synonyms:
   usage, use, habit, delectation, use of goods and services, consumption, usance, role, function, utilization, utilisation, employment, economic consumption, manipulation, purpose, exercise

Matched Categories

1. • Pleasure

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1. enjoymentnoun

   Synonyms:
   pleasure, gratification, delight, happiness

2. enjoymentnoun

   Synonyms:
   fruition, satisfactory possession

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1. enjoymentnoun

   Synonyms:
   pleasure, delight, gratification, delectation, felicity, fruition

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1. List of paraphrases for "enjoyment":

   enjoy, exercise, realization, tenure, goce, pleasure, fulfilment, year, usufruct

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How to use enjoyment in a sentence?

1. Ducks International:

   Plaintiff (Harris) has been rendered nervous by the incident, (He) has suffered anxiety of body and mind and has suffered emotional upset and loss of enjoyment of life, has suffered on going inability to sleep, horrific nightmares, distress, trauma, and post traumatic stress.

2. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

   Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously

3. Douglas William Jerrold:

   Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

4. George Mason:

   All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.

5. Norman O. Brown:

   The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.