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luxuriancy

luxuriancy is the obsolete form of luxuriance.

Meaning of luxuriance

Noun

luxuriance (countable and uncountable, plural luxuriances)

  1. The property of being luxuriant.
    • Yet such was the luxuriance of the tropical growth that the rats had not attained such numbers as to provide competition among members of the species.1949, Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
    Synonyms:
    luxuriantness

Forms of luxuriancy

pluralluxuriancies

Origin of luxuriancy

From luxury + -ancy or luxuriant + -cy.

Questions about luxuriancy

What is luxuriancy the obsolete form of?
Luxuriancy is the obsolete form of luxuriance.

Words near luxuriancy in the dictionary

  1. Luxulyan
  2. luxulyanite
  3. luxuriance
  4. luxuriances
  5. luxuriancies
  6. luxuriancy
  7. luxuriant
  8. luxuriantly
  9. luxuriantness
  10. luxuriate
  11. luxuriated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: luxuriancy (page history and authors); luxuriance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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