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sybarism

sybarism is the alternative form of sybaritism.

Meaning of sybaritism

Noun

sybaritism (countable and uncountable, plural sybaritisms)

  1. luxury, wantonness, voluptuousness, or hedonism
    • The samurai and others who flocked from the provinces to the capital when all offices were thrown open to talent, took kindly to the sybaritism which had been one of the causes of ruin to those they were supplanting.1895, Jukichi Inouye, sSketches of Tokyo Life, Chapter 4

Forms of sybarism

pluralsybarisms

Questions about sybarism

What is sybarism the alternative form of?
Sybarism is the alternative form of sybaritism.

Words near sybarism in the dictionary

  1. Syan
  2. Syarhei
  3. Syarhey
  4. Syariah police
  5. Sybaris
  6. sybarism
  7. sybarisms
  8. sybarite
  9. sybarites
  10. sybaritic
  11. sybaritical

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