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[ noun ] a feeling of delight at being entertained

Used in print

(Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)

His appearance as Lizzy evokes not amusement but horror in the audience ; it is a spectacle absolutely painful , an epiphany of the suffering flesh unredeemed by spirit , untouched by any spirit other_than abasement and humiliation .

Related terms

delight amuse

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[ noun ] an activity that entertains

Synonyms

entertainment

Used in print

(Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)

All these emotions were screwed_up to new heights when , after acceptance and the first rehearsals , there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music_lovers that Duclos had_to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King 's amusements , and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau .

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