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Luxury
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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