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Amenity vs Amenable - What's the difference?

amenity | amenable |

As a noun amenity

is pleasantness.

As an adjective amenable is

willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

amenity

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(amenities)
  • Pleasantness.
    • We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday.
  • A thing or circumstance that is welcome and makes life a little easier or more pleasant.
    • All the little amenities the hotel provided made our stay very enjoyable.
  • Convenience.
  • (cartography) a unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library etc.

    • Synonyms

    * (piece of infrastructure) facility, infrastructure

    Derived terms

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    Anagrams

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    amenable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
  • Willing to comply with; agreeable.
  • (math, of a group) Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

    • Antonyms

    * unamenable

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