enjoyment
noun
the act of enjoying.
self-enjoyment
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a word derived from
enjoyment.
Example Sentences
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But what sets apart is its tone—a seemingly impossible blend of savage self-satire and blissfully oblivious self-enjoyment.
From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2013
It’s a remarkably unsentimental performance, free of actressy self-enjoyment: Kelli is no noble martyred war hero but a troubled woman who can be self-pitying, ungrateful, and infuriatingly passive.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2012
Of such bodies and souls the self-enjoyment calleth itself "virtue."
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
They cannot utter their valiant “No,” or “I can’t afford it,” to the invitations of pleasure and self-enjoyment; and they are found ready to brave death rather than the ridicule of their companions.
From Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance by Samuel Smiles
Notwithstanding his great fortune and position, his departure from the university was not a signal with him for that abandonment to the world, and that unbounded self-enjoyment naturally so tempting to youth.
From Venetia by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
