Luxury

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: lux=u=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

Luxury, n. [L. luxuria, fr. luxus: cf. F. luxure.].

•  A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.  [1913 Webster]

  "Riches expose a man to pride and luxury."  [1913 Webster]
•  Anything which pleases the senses, is not necessary for life, 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. Contrasted to necessity.  [1913 Webster]

  "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."  [1913 Webster]
•  Lechery; lust.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

  "Luxury is in wine and drunkenness."  [1913 Webster]
•  Luxuriance; exuberance.  Bacon.

Syn. -- Voluptuousness; epicurism; effeminacy; sensuality; lasciviousness; dainty; delicacy; gratification.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Luxury, n. (pl. -ies)
1 choice or costly surroundings, possessions, food, etc.; luxuriousness (a life of luxury).
2 something desirable for comfort or enjoyment, but not indispensable.
3 (attrib.) providing great comfort, expensive (a luxury flat; a luxury holiday).

Etymology

ME f. OF luxurie, luxure f. L luxuria f. luxus abundance

THESAURUS

Luxury

Babylonian splendor, Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, Easy Street, affluence, amenity, amusement, animal pleasure, appeal, appealingness, appetite, appetitiveness, attractiveness, bed of roses, bedizenment, bewitchment, bodily pleasure, brilliance, captivation, carnal delight, charm, clover, comfort, confidence, content, contentment, coziness, creature comforts, dainty, delicacy, delight, delightfulness, duplication, duplication of effort, ease, easy circumstances, 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

ROGET THESAURUS

Luxury

Redundancy

N redundancy, redundance, too much, too many, superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation, nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness, profusion, repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share, more than enough, plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener, turgescence, overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow, inundation, avalanche, accumulation, heap, drug, drug in the market, glut, crowd, burden, excess, surplus, overplus, epact, margin, remainder, duplicate, surplusage, expletive, work of supererogation, bonus, bonanza, luxury, intemperance, extravagance, exorbitance, lavishment, pleonasm, too many irons in the fire, embarras de richesses, redundant, too much, too many, exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish, prodigal, exorbitant, overweening, extravagant, overcharged, supersaturated, drenched, overflowing, running over, running to waste, running down, crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing, gorged, ready to burst, dropsical, turgid, plethoric, obese, superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous, uncalled for, to spare, in excess, over and above, de trop, adscititious, supernumerary, on one's hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive, un peu fort, over, too, over and above, overmuch, too much, too far, without measure, beyond measure, out of measure, with a to spare, over head and ears, up to one's eyes, up to one's ears, extra, beyond the mark, acervatim, it never rains but it pours, fortuna multis dat nimium nulli satis, Degree of Subservience.

Pleasure

N pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition, oblectation, delectation, delection, relish, zest, gusto, satisfaction, complacency, well-being, good, snugness, comfort, ease, cushion, sans souci, without worry, mind at ease, joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine, cheerfulness, treat, refreshment, amusement, luxury, mens sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a sound body, happiness, felicity, bliss, beatitude, beautification, enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy, summum bonum, paradise, elysium, third heaven, seventh heaven, cloud nine, unalloyed happiness, hedonics, hedonism, honeymoon, palmy days, halcyon days, golden age, golden time, Dixie, Dixie's land, Saturnia regna, Arcadia, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone, pleased, not sorry, glad, gladsome, pleased as Punch, happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified, happy as a clam at high water, happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus, enjoying, joyful, hedonic, in a blissful state, in paradise, in raptures, in ecstasies, in a transport of delight, comfortable, at ease, content, sans souci, overjoyed, entranced, enchanted, enraptures, enravished, transported, fascinated, captivated, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, pleasing, ecstatic, beatic, painless, unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless, happily, with pleasure, with glee, one's heart leaping with joy, a wilderness of sweets, I wish you all the joy that you can wish, jour de ma vie, joy ruled the day and love the night, joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt, oh happiness, our being's end and aim!, there is a pleasure that is born of pain, throned on highest bliss, vedi Napoli e poi muori, zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke nicht weit, the bridge between joy and sorrow is not wide.

Intemperance

N intemperance, sensuality, animalism, carnality, tragalism, pleasure, effeminacy, silkiness, luxury, luxuriousness, lap of pleasure, lap of luxury, free living, indulgence, high living, wild living, inabstinence, self- indulgence, voluptuousness, epicurism, epicureanism, sybaritism, drug habit, dissipation, licentiousness, debauchery, crapulence, revels, revelry, debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies, excess, too much, Circean cup, bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot, hemp, grass, opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin, LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP, barbiturates, amphetamines, speed, intemperate, inabstinent, sensual, self-indulgent, voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched, brutish, crapulous, swinish, piggish, Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical, bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury, indulged, pampered, full-fed, high-fed, being full of supper and distempering draughts.

Physical Pleasure

N physical pleasure, pleasure, physical pleasure, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, bodily enjoyment, animal gratification, hedonism, sensuality, luxuriousness, dissipation, round of pleasure, titillation, gusto, creature comforts, comfort, ease, pillow, luxury, lap of luxury, purple and fine linen, bed of downs, bed of roses, velvet, clover, cup of Circe, treat, refreshment, regale, feast, delice, dainty, bonne bouche, source of pleasure, happiness, enjoying, luxurious, voluptuous, sensual, comfortable, cosy, snug, in comfort, at ease, pleasant, agreeable, in comfort, on a bed of roses, at one's ease, ride si sapis, voluptales commendat rarior usus.