'Luxury' definitions:
Definition of 'luxury'
(from WordNet)
noun
Something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity
noun
The quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive [syn: lavishness, luxury, sumptuosity, sumptuousness]
noun
Definition of 'Luxury'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- Riches expose a man to pride and luxury. --Spectator. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [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. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Lechery; lust. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Luxury is in wine and drunkenness. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Luxuriance; exuberance. [Obs.] --Bacon.
- Syn: Voluptuousness; epicurism; effeminacy; sensuality; lasciviousness; dainty; delicacy; gratification. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'luxury'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affluence,
- amenity,
- amusement,
- animal pleasure,
- appeal,
- appealingness,
- appetite,
- appetitiveness,
- attractiveness,
- Babylonian splendor,
- bed of roses,
- bedizenment,
- bewitchment,
- bodily pleasure,
- brilliance,
- captivation,
- carnal delight,
- charm,
- clover,
- comfort,
- confidence,
- content,
- contentment,
- coziness,
- creature comforts,
- Cyrenaic hedonism,
- Cyrenaicism,
- dainty,
- delicacy,
- delight,
- delightfulness,
- duplication,
- duplication of effort,
- ease,
- easy circumstances,
- Easy Street,
- 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