enjoyment
noun
the act of enjoying.
self-enjoyment
-
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
"You wanted self-enjoyment; you wanted a happy life; you wanted to live only for yourself—" "What is self-enjoyment?"
From Liza "A nest of nobles" by William Ralston Shedden Ralston
In that case, Madam, you should welcome in a year full of blessings: everything that obstructs or disturbs tranquillity and self-enjoyment, should be removed, and every pleasure that frail humanity can taste, should be yours.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
But it is one towards which the poor will tend in every country in which the rich are merely rich, spending their wealth in self-enjoyment, atoned for by a modicum of alms.
From All Saints' Day and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley
