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单词 voluptuousness
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voluptuousnessn.

Brit. /vəˈlʌptʃʊəsnəs/, /vəˈlʌptjʊəsnəs/, U.S. /vəˈləp(t)ʃ(əw)əsnəs/
Forms: Also 1600s voluptousnes, voluptusnesse.
Etymology: formed as voluptuous adj. + -ness suffix.
The quality of being voluptuous.
1.
a. Addiction to sensuous pleasures; indulgence in pleasure and luxury.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun]
delice?c1225
delicacya1393
sensualityc1425
voluptuousness1508
sensualness1530
luxuriousness1542
deliciousness1548
epicurism1570
epicurity1574
carnal-mindedness1607
Epicureanism1726
sensualism1760
pleasurehood1842
fleshly-mindedness1846
apolausticism1883
sensism1890
1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. aa.viv Our prophete..ferynge to offende almyghty god, syth that afore tyme he was ouercomen by his owne voluptuousnes.
1531 W. Tyndale Expos. 1 John (1537) 48 Some call themselues dead, which lyue in all voluptuousnesse.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lviv They take your goods, & spende them wickedly in pride, riot, and voluptuousnes.
1614 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 2) iv. v. 365 As their liues were burthened with voluptuousnesse, so they prepared for their deaths.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 340 They delight excessively in all sorts of games and voluptuousnesse.
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 120 No place in the World can promise the beholder at a distance, greater voluptuousness.
1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. x. 275 Complaints of their voluptuousness are without end.
1812 G. Chalmers Hist. View Domest. Econ. Great Brit. & Ireland 329 We became more luxurious, and, as our voluptuousness increased, our industry diminished.
1860 G. J. Adler tr. C. C. Fauriel Hist. Provençal Poetry xv. 328 The man who was tormented by voluptuousness was declared incapable of love.
1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life v. i. 170 Men of the English race are often grandly strong in resistance to every form of voluptuousness.
personif.1603 J. Davies Extasie in Microcosmos 240 In summe shee was such as Voluptusnesse With all her coulors cannot well expresse.1639 N. N. tr. J. Du Bosc Compl. Woman i. 15 There are more who haunt the Schoole of Voluptousnes, then that of vertue.in extended use.1768 Woman of Honor III. 243 I could with great voluptuousness of scorn have spit in his face.
b. The quality of expressing voluptuous ideas.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > other aspects or elements > [noun] > expression of voluptuous ideas
voluptuousness1873
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets v. 129 The voluptuousness of Æolian poetry is not like that of Persian or Arabian art.
2. Luxuriance, luxury, or refinement tending to gratify the senses or to impart sensuous pleasure.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [noun]
softnessOE
voluptuositya1380
voluptuoustya1382
delicacya1393
deliciousnessa1500
volupteousness1526
niceness1540
nicety1542
wealiness1545
luxe1558
voluptibility1631
luxury1633
voluptuousness1652
volupté1712
decadence1882
gracious living1892
vie de luxe1920
good life1937
dolce vita1961
sweet life1962
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > profuseness, luxuriousness, or lushness
richness1564
profuseness1584
prodigality1597
luxury?1611
luxuritya1636
luxuriancy1648
voluptuousness1652
luxuriance1728
luxuriation1839
lavishness1859
luxuriousness1872
overflowingness1883
lushness1900
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Aaa6 The Countrey very plentifull of all manner of fruites, even unto voluptuousnesse.
1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery v. 354 He celebrated the Decennia with new Sorts of Games, with a new Kind of Pomp, and with the most exquisite Voluptuousness.
1801 H. Lee Canterbury Tales IV. 378 The species of rustic voluptuousness his garden otherwise afforded.
1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. vi. 95 Softened by the quiet beauty and voluptuousness around him, Walter's thoughts assumed a more gentle dye.
1893 E. F. Howe in Voice (N.Y.) 21 Sept. We have..the desert brought into voluptuousness by the development of great irrigation enterprises.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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