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Luxury

Luxury Meaning & Definition
Luxury Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Luxury?

[n] something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity
[n] the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive
[n] wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living

Synonyms | Synonyms for Luxury: extravagance | lavishness | luxuriousness | opulence | sumptuosity | sumptuousness | sumptuousness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Luxury: affluence | amenity | amusement | animal pleasure | appeal | appealingness | appetite | appetitiveness | attractiveness | Babylonian splendor | bed of roses | bedizenment | bewitchment | bodily pleasure | brilliance | captivation | carnal delight | charm | clover | comfort | confidence | content | contentment | coziness | creature comforts | Cyrenaic hedonism | Cyrenaicism | dainty | delicacy | delight | delightfulness | duplication | duplication of effort | ease | easy circumstances | Easy Street | elaborateness | elegance | embellishment | enchantment | endpleasure | enjoyment | enravishment | entertainment | entrancement | epicureanism | epicurism | ethical hedonism | euphoria | expendable | expletive | exquisiteness | extra | extravagance | fascination | fat | featherbedding | felicity | filling | fleshpots | forepleasure | frill | frills | frippery | fruition | fun | gingerbread | glamour | glory | gorgeousness | grace | gracious life | gracious living | grandeur | grandiosity | grandness | gratification | great satisfaction | gusto | happiness | hearty enjoyment | hedonic calculus | hedonics | hedonism | imposingness | impressiveness | indulgence | intellectual pleasure | invitingness | joie de vivre | keen pleasure | kicks | lap of luxury | lavishness | life of ease | loaves and fishes | loveliness | luxuriousness | magnificence | majesty | needlessness | nobility | opulence | ornamentation | overadornment | overlap | padding | payroll padding | physical pleasure | pleasure | pleasure principle | pleasure-seeking | pleonasm | plushness | poshness | prolixity | prosperity | prosperousness | proudness | psychological hedonism | quiet pleasure | redundance | redundancy | relish | resplendence | richness | ritziness | satisfaction | security | self-gratification | self-indulgence | sensual pleasure | sensualism | sensuality | sensualness | sensuous pleasure | sensuousness | sexual pleasure | splendidness | splendiferousness | splendor | state | stateliness | success | sumptuousness | superfluity | superfluousness | sweetness of life | sybaritism | tantalizingness | tautology | temptingness | the affluent life | the good life | thriving condition | titillation | treat | unchastity | unnecessariness | upward mobility | velvet | verbosity | voluptuousness | weal | wealth | welfare | well-being | winningness | winsomeness | witchery | zest

See Also | expensiveness | indulgence | self-indulgence | wealth | wealthiness

Luxury In Webster's Dictionary

\Lux"u*ry\, n.; pl. {Luxuries}. [L. luxuria, fr. luxus: cf. F. luxure.] 1. A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes. Riches expose a man to pride and luxury. --Spectator. 2. Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as, silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury. He cut the side of a rock for a garden, and, by laying on it earth, furnished out a kind of luxury for a hermit. --Addison. 3. Lechery; lust. [Obs.] --Shak. Luxury is in wine and drunkenness. --Chaucer. 4. Luxuriance; exuberance. [Obs.] --Bacon. Syn: Voluptuousness; epicurism; effeminacy; sensuality; lasciviousness; dainty; delicacy; gratification.

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