Amenity – noun  ame·ni·ty  \ ə-ˈme-nə-tē , -ˈmē- \

Amenity – something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment.

” It’s not quite an essential amenity or legally required to open, but its nice.”

Using context clues in the above sentence, I thought the definition of the word amenity held the same meaning of the juxtapose word next to it “essential”. however seeing to it that their wasn’t the use of the word “or” or apostrophe or semi colon, to show that they held similar meanings, I thought it might have a different meaning. The word amenity Simply means something that’s not needed but bring comfort.