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• amœnity (archaic)

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Inherited from 中期英語 amenite, amenyte, partly from Middle French amenité and partly from its etymon, Latin amoenitās (“pleasantness, delightfulness”), from amoenus (“pleasant, delightful”), of unknown origin.

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• (英国発音) IPA: /əˈmiːnəti/
• (米国発音, Australian) IPA: /əˈmɛnəti/
• ハイフネーション: a‧me‧ni‧ty

名詞

amenity (uncountable)

1. Pleasantness.

   We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday.

   • 1834, George Bancroft, “Spaniards in the United States”, in History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume I (Colonial History), Boston, Mass.: Charles Bowen; London: R. J. Kennett, →OCLC, page 71:

     The harbor of Port Royal, rendered gloomy by recollections of misery, was avoided; and after searching the coast and discovering places, which were so full of amenity, that melancholy itself could not but change its humor, as it gazed, the followers of Calvin planted themselves on the banks of the river May.

2. Convenience.
3. (urban studies) A unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library, among others.

   Synonyms: facility, infrastructure

   • 2005, James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency, Grove Atlantic, page 40:

     Suburbia was the prescribed antidote to the dreariness of the hypertrophied industrial city—and most American cities had never been anything but that. They were short on amenity, overcrowded, and artless. Americans were sick of them and saw no way to improve them.

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