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countable and uncountable, plural enjoyments
(uncountable) The condition of enjoying anything. quotations examples
Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
Our Republic continues to increase in the enjoyment of freedom within its borders, and to offer strength and encouragement to all those who love freedom throughout the world.
1950 January 4, Harry S. Truman, Fifth State of the Union Address
(uncountable) An enjoyable state of mind. quotations examples
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts.
1833, John Stuart Mill, Remarks on Bentham's Philosophy
(countable) An activity that gives pleasure. quotations examples
Is it, haply, an idle occupation, or is the time ill-spent that is spent in roaming the world in quest, not of its enjoyments, but of those arduous toils whereby the good mount upwards to the abodes of everlasting life?
1885, John Ormsby, Don Quixote, translation of original by Miguel de Cervantes, published 1605, 1615
(law) The exercise of a legal right. examples