享受

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 享受 is read as きょうじゅ and is a noun and する verb for enjoying or benefiting from something favorable, such as a benefit, right, or opportunity.
• Basic usage: Enjoying the benefits of nature appears in 自然の恵みを享受する, while being able to enjoy an educational opportunity appears in 教育を受ける機会を享受できる.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• An abstract benefit as object
  • A benefit, right, or opportunity being enjoyed is marked with を, and the expression is relatively formal.
• Difference from 楽しむ
  • Unlike the everyday verb for enjoying an activity or feeling pleasure, this term has a literary or formal sense of receiving a benefit or opportunity.