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luxuriosity

luxuriosity noun: the quality of being luxurious.

Noun

luxuriosity (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being luxurious.
    • In some rare cases; colic, cardialgia, principally during digestion; coxalgia; virile impotence, and immoderate luxuriosity.1856, “[Progress of Medicine.] Art. I.—Rademacher, the Empirical Reformer in Germany; his Doctrine and Therapeutics: translated from the “Revue de Thérapeutique Médico-Chirurgicales” of August and...
    • Bad sesht to th’ langwid luxuriosity av thim same sait-howlding hogs!1900, John J[oseph] Jennings, “[Herself and Others.] The Great American Hog.”, in Widow Magoogin, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Dillingham Co., […], page 40

Examples of luxuriosity in a sentence

  • Never knowed th’ comfortableness an’ luxuriosity o’ bein’ one’s own boss till this winter.1902 March 15, “Around the Village. Some Current Gossip About Local Rubes.”, in The Bayonne Herald and Greenville Register, 35th year...
  • The “cats” in the tent, the pretty pink servitors, the music, the tout ensemble, made a perfect picture of ruralistic luxuriosity, as a certain Pacific Coast hotel newspaper editor would describe it.1917, The Hotel World: The Hotel and Travelers Journal, volume 85, page 13, column 2:
  • Talk about wallering in sinful luxuriosity, why it’s nothing to it.1928 September 23, Sylvia Cornish, “The Gipsy Party”, in Sunday Mercury and Sunday News, number 507, [Birmingham], page 6, column 5:
  • A Hup of extreme velociousness and luxuriosity.1931, Florence Riddell, Wives Win, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 41:

Synonyms of luxuriosity

Origin of luxuriosity

From luxuri(ous) + -osity.

Questions about luxuriosity

What does luxuriosity mean?
Luxuriosity means the quality of being luxurious.
How do you use luxuriosity in a sentence?
Never knowed th’ comfortableness an’ luxuriosity o’ bein’ one’s own boss till this winter.
What part of speech is luxuriosity?
Luxuriosity is a noun.

Words near luxuriosity in the dictionary

  1. luxuriating
  2. luxuriation
  3. luxuriations
  4. luxurient
  5. luxuries
  6. luxuriosity
  7. luxurious
  8. luxuriously
  9. luxuriousness
  10. luxuriousnesses
  11. luxurist

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