Luxury

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Luxury \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.
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              Riches expose a man to pride and luxury.
                                                    --Spectator.
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     2. 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}.
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              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.
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     3. Lechery; lust. [Obs.] --Shak.
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              Luxury is in wine and drunkenness.    --Chaucer.
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     4. Luxuriance; exuberance. [Obs.] --Bacon.
  
     Syn: Voluptuousness; epicurism; effeminacy; sensuality;
          lasciviousness; dainty; delicacy; gratification.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  luxury
       adj : elegant and sumptuous; "a deluxe car"; "luxe
             accommodations"; "a luxury condominium" [syn: {deluxe},
              {de luxe}, {luxe}, {luxury(a)}]
       n 1: something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity
       2: the quality possessed by something that is excessively
          expensive [syn: {lavishness}, {sumptuosity}, {sumptuousness}]
       3: wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living [syn: {luxuriousness},
           {opulence}, {sumptuousness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  171 Moby Thesaurus words for "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