amenity

IPA: ʌmˈɛnʌti

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.

Examples of "amenity" in Sentences

A passenger amenity from the first commercial space flight shuttle (2 pts)
The closest I had to an amenity was a soft towel and a full-length mirror.
Or do you dislike it simply because the building surface and the amenity is similar?
But the amenity is still hard to come by for many U.S. fliers, despite a couple of airports that have recently announced that they're switching to the free model.
And with each new surcharge and each new item of clothing one is required to remove to board an airplane — and with every small-town commercial airport and cabin amenity that vanishes forever — the rails beckon.
Grafton and Carroll counties — called "amenity counties" by demographers because their natural beauty attracts people to move there — grew 9% and 9.5% The only county to lose population was Coos, the northernmost county.
"A community service organization such as TelfairLife helps us to capture that intangible but most precious 'amenity' - a vibrant sense of community that makes each resident feel like they are part of something greater than their own household or street.
"It is not the most appropriate passenger facility and, indeed, we think we can create a cruise terminal in the bays precinct that offers passenger amenity, that is able to meet international passenger security standards and that provides a first-class, world facility."