Privilege vs Amenity - What's the difference?
privilege | amenity |
A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise; preferential treatment.
The status or existence of such benefit or advantage.
(legal) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
(finance) A call, put, spread, or other option.
(computing) An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users; permission.
(archaic) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.
(archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
Pleasantness.
A thing or circumstance that is welcome and makes life a little easier or more pleasant.
Convenience.
(cartography) a unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library etc.
As nouns the difference between privilege and amenity
is that privilege is while amenity is pleasantness.privilege
Alternative forms
* priviledg (obsolete) * priviledge (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- All first-year professors here must teach four courses a term, yet you're only teaching one! What entitled you to such a privilege ?
- In order to advance racial equality in the United States, what we've got to do is reduce white privilege .
- ''Your honor, my client is not required to answer that; her response is protected by attorney-client privilege .
Synonyms
* prerogative, immunity, freelage, franchise, right, claim, liberty, advantage, foredealDerived terms
* cisprivilegeVerb
(privileg)amenity
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(amenities)- We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday.
- All the little amenities the hotel provided made our stay very enjoyable.