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Antonyms for luxuriousness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : luhg-zhoor-ee-uhs, luhk-shoor- |
| Phonetic Transcription : lʌgˈʒʊər i əs, lʌkˈʃʊər- |
Definition of luxuriousness
Origin :- c.1300, "lascivious, lecherous, unchaste," from Old French luxurios "lustful, lascivious" (Modern French luxurieux), from Latin luxuriosus, from luxuria (see luxury). Meaning "given to luxury, voluptuous" (of persons) is from c.1600. Of things, meaning "characterized by luxury" is attested from c.1650. Related: Luxuriously; luxuriousness.
- As in luxury : noun great pleasure, indulgence
- As in magnificence : noun grandeur
- As in grandeur : noun great importance
- Cork abounds in cars of all degrees of decrepitude and luxuriousness.
- Extract from : « Romantic Ireland; volume 2/2 » by M.F and B. McM. Mansfield
- If it had been eighty pound, the luxuriousness of feeling would have been increased.
- Extract from : « The Old Curiosity Shop » by Charles Dickens
- The luxuriousness of these wealthy women rivalled that of Rome itself.
- Extract from : « Women of Early Christianity » by Alfred Brittain
- With a sensation of luxuriousness he recalled the labels with the large "Poison!"
- Extract from : « Phases of an Inferior Planet » by Ellen Glasgow
- Luxuriousness is the immoderate desire or love of good living.
- Extract from : « The Philosophy of Spinoza » by Baruch de Spinoza
- The dainty voluptuousness in a "Serenade" kindles with the luxuriousness of the South.
- Extract from : « Poems of Henry Timrod » by Henry Timrod
- However, Dawson could not help gasping impulsively at the luxuriousness of the fittings and furnishings.
- Extract from : « Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal » by Robert Sydney Bowen
- I never knew austerity so resemble luxuriousness—or the other way about, whichever it was.
- Extract from : « The Debit Account » by Oliver Onions
- It would ill become us to dilate at length upon the extremes into which their arrogance and luxuriousness led them.
- Extract from : « The Message » by Alec John Dawson
- She shook her head, with the same austere air of luxuriousness that she had shown over-night when speaking of the weather. '
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
Synonyms for luxuriousness
- affluence
- amplitude
- augustness
- beauty
- bliss
- breadth
- brilliance
- celebrity
- circumstance
- comfort
- delight
- dignity
- distinction
- elegance
- elevation
- eminence
- enjoyment
- exaltedness
- exorbitance
- expansiveness
- extravagance
- fame
- fineness
- flourish
- frill
- glitter
- glory
- grace
- grandiosity
- gratification
- gravity
- greatness
- handsomeness
- hedonism
- high living
- immensity
- immoderation
- importance
- impressiveness
- inclusiveness
- intemperance
- lavishness
- leisure
- loftiness
- luxuriousness
- magnificence
- majesty
- might
- nobility
- nobleness
- opulence
- ostentation
- ostentatiousness
- pomp
- post
- preeminence
- pulchritude
- radiance
- rarity
- resplendency
- richness
- satisfaction
- show
- spectacularity
- splendor
- state
- stateliness
- style
- sublimity
- sumptuousness
- superbity
- swank
- sway
- transcendency
- treat
- vastness
- well-being
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