amœnity

Noun

amenity (uncountable)

1. Pleasantness.
   • We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday.
2. Convenience.
3. (urban studies) A unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library, among others.
   • Suburbia was the prescribed antidote to the dreariness of the hypertrophied industrial city—and most American cities had never been anything but that. They were short on amenity, overcrowded, and artless. Americans were sick of them and saw no way to improve them.2005, James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency, Grove Atlantic, page 40

   Synonyms:

   facility, infrastructure