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Variant of amenity

amenity definition

amen·ity (ə men′ə tē; also, -mēn′-)

noun pl. amenities -·ties

  1. pleasant quality; attractiveness
    1. an attractive or desirable feature, as of a place or climate
    2. anything that adds to a person's comfort; convenience
  3. the courteous acts and pleasant manners of polite social behavior

Etymology: ME & OFr amenite < L amoenitas < amoenus, pleasant; akin to amare, to love

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amenities Synonyms

amenities

pl.n.

civilities, courtesies, etiquette; see behavior 1, courtesy 1.


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But afterall it's not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It'söto coinawordötheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism.

-Cooke, (Alfred) Alistair

We do not like the confiding, the intimate, the ingratiating, the hail-fellow-well-met, but prefer the unapproachable, the hard-bitten, the recalcitrant, the sinister, the malignant, the saturnine, the cross-grained and the cankered, and the howling wilderness to the amenities of civilization, the irascible to the affable, the prickly to the smooth.We have no damned fellow- feeling at all.

-Grieve

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