The pleasure felt when having a good time.

Dutch: geneugte, genoegen, zin

Act of receiving pleasure from something.

synonym: delectation.

Roget 827: pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition; oblectation, delectation, delection^†; relish, zest; gusto etc. (physical pleasure) 377; satisfaction etc. (content) 831; complacency.    well-being; good etc. 618; snugness, comfort, ease; cushion etc. 215; sans souci [Fr.], without worry, mind at ease.    joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine; cheerfulness etc. 836.    treat, refreshment; amusement etc. 840; luxury etc. 377.    mens sana in corpore sano [Lat.] [Juvenal], a sound mind in a sound body.    happiness, felicity, bliss; beatitude, beautification; enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy; summum bonum [Lat.]; paradise, elysium etc. (heaven) 981; third heaven^†, seventh heaven, cloud nine; unalloyed happiness &c.; hedonics^†, hedonism.    honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time; Dixie, Dixie's land; Saturnia regna [Lat.], Arcadia^†, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone^†.    ... show more

law The exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property.

synonym: use.

Dutch: genot