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Definition of Enjoyment

1. Noun. The pleasure felt when having a good time.

2. Noun. Act of receiving pleasure from something.

3. Noun. (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property. "We were given the use of his boat"

Definition of Enjoyment

1. 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.

Definition of Enjoyment

1. Noun. The condition of enjoying anything. ¹

2. Noun. An enjoyable state of mind. ¹

3. Noun. An activity that gives pleasure. ¹

4. Noun. (legal) The exercise of a legal right ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Enjoyment

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Enjoyment

1. 1. 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. 2. That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction. "The hope of everlasting enjoyments." (Glanvill) Synonym: Pleasure, satisfaction, gratification, fruition, happiness, felicity, delight. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Enjoyment

enjoinments enjoins enjoy enjoy oneself enjoy your meal enjoyability enjoyable enjoyableness enjoyablenesses enjoyably

enjoyed enjoyer enjoyers enjoying enjoyingly enjoyment (current term) enjoyments enjoys enjury enkennel

enkenneled enkennelled enkennels enkephalin enkephalinergic enkephalins enkernel enkernels enkindle enkindled

Literary usage of Enjoyment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1907)
"Averring that, under the rules and regulations of the Department of the Interior, in order that plaintiff might obtain the use and enjoyment of the land, ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"I< »Ht. or destroy wl, are admissible to prove a location. claiming under them, an exclusive right to the- possession and enjoyment of the property until ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Covenants for Title by William Henry Rawle (1887)
"24. is immediately preceded ; that clause be- s " Unconnected with any other clause, ing the covenant for quiet enjoyment. ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The foundation of prescription is the presumption of law that a person found in undisturbed enjoyment of a right did not come into possession by an unlawful ..."

5. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"power of enjoyment. She was perfectly disposed to make every allowance for the colonel's advanced state of life which humanity required. ..."

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