different between amenity vs enmity

English

Alternative forms

• amœnity (archaic)

Etymology

From French aménité, from Latin amoenit?s (“pleasantness, delightfulness”), from amoenus (“pleasant, delightful”), of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mi?n?ti/, /??m?n?ti/

Noun

amenity (countable and uncountable, plural amenities)

1. Pleasantness.

   We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday.
2. 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.
3. Convenience.
4. (cartography) a unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library etc.

   Synonyms: facility, infrastructure

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• any time, anytime

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French enemisté, ennemistié, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *inim?cit?s, *inim?cit?tem, from Latin inim?cus (“enemy”); cognates: French inimitié, Portuguese inimizade, Spanish enemistad.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n.m?.t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n.m?.ti?/

Noun

enmity (countable and uncountable, plural enmities)

1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242e.

     Some later Muses from Ionia and Sicily reckoned it safest to weave together both versions and say that that which is is both many and one, held together by both enmity and amity.

2. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.

   • I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.

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• amity

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References

• enmity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• enmity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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