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AMENITY

(
ə-mĕn'ĭ-tē, ə-mē'nĭ-) pronunciation

n.pl.-ties.
1.The quality of being pleasant or attractive; agreeableness.
2.Something that contributes to physical or material comfort.
3.A feature that increases attractiveness or value, especially of a piece of real estate or a geographic
   location.
4.amenities Social courtesies.


[Middle English amenite, from Old French, from Latin amoenitās, from amoenus, pleasant.]


SYNONYMS   amenity, comfort, convenience, facility. These nouns denote something that increases physical ease or facilitates work: an apartment with amenities like air conditioning; a suite with all the comforts of home; a kitchen with every convenience; a school with excellent facilities



Pleasantness; those aspects of an area such as housing, space, and recreational and leisure
activities which make it an attractive place to live in. By this definition, a 1995 survey found
that Henley-on-Thames had the highest amenity of any town in the UK.




Oxford Dictionary :

amenity

Term denoting, in a very broad way, the public benefits accruing from the condition of a place, such as aesthetic beauty, clean air and water, or good street lighting. The function of the concept of amenity is therefore to embrace those factors in a decision about environmental development which are excluded from, and sometimes in contradiction to, considerations of commercial productivity.