enjoyment

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The condition of enjoying anything.

   Few activities better the enjoyment of a hearty meal eaten in good company.

2. 2
   noun

   An enjoyable state of mind.

   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. 3
   noun

   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. 4
   noun

   act of receiving pleasure from something

5. 5
   noun

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

6. 6
   noun

   the pleasure felt when having a good time

7. 7
   noun

   The exercise of a legal right.

Etymology

From enjoy + -ment.