voluptuary
Plural: voluptuaries
Noun
- a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
- One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a pleasure-seeker, a sensualist.
Adjective Satellite
- displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
Adj
- Of or relating to the seeking of sensual pleasure.
Origin / Etymology
From French voluptuaire, or directly from its etymon Late Latin voluptuārius, from Latin voluptārius (“pleasure-seeker; agreeable, delightful, pleasant; sensual”), from voluptās (“delight, pleasure, satisfaction”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns). Voluptās is derived from volup (“with pleasure; agreeably, pleasantly, satisfactorily”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose; to want”)) + -tās (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns indicating a state of being).
Synonyms
epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, sybarite, sybaritic, voluptuous, Babylonian, bon viveur, decadent, epicure, epicureal, epicureous, epicurish, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, high-stepper, intemperate, lapling, lotus-eater, lotus-eating, pleasure seeker, pleasurist, self-indulgent, sensualist, sensualistic, sinful, softling, sybaritical, voluptuarian, voluptuary
Scrabble Score: 18
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