Synonyms for enjoyment
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Noun
1. Pleasure
pleasure, happiness, delight, gratification, fun, delectation, satisfaction, entertainment, comfort, ease, bliss, relish, diversion, zest, luxury, feast, fruition, gusto, ecstasy, gladness
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Definitions
- n. 1
The condition of enjoying anything.
Few activities better the enjoyment of a hearty meal eaten in good company.
Forms
- Plural
- enjoyments → pleasures, happinesses, delights, gratifications…
Choose the right word
Amusement is a form of enjoyment, but enjoyment may be too keen to be called amusement.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- pleasure Tom derives pleasure from helping disabled people.
- happiness To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
- gratification Sociopaths would do anything for instant gratification.
- possession I have never had more than $500 in my possession.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| enjoyment | steady | |
| pleasure | rising | |
| happiness | rising | |
| gratification | steady | |
| delectation | steady | |
| possession | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- use1, fun1
- 4 letters
- ease1, zest1
- 5 letters
- feast1, bliss1, gusto2
- 6 letters
- luxury3, relish2
- 7 letters
- comfort2, delight2, ecstasy3
- 8 letters
- pleasure2, fruition3, gladness
- 9 letters
- happiness3, diversion3
- 10 letters
- possession3
- 11 letters
- delectation
- 12 letters
- satisfaction4
- 13 letters
- entertainment4, gratification5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gusto2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- jouissance
- Italiano
- godimento
- Español
- goce
- Deutsch
- Genuss
- Català
- gaudi