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voluptuary
Voluptuary (noun) means someone who lives mainly for physical pleasure and enjoyment.
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Someone who lives mainly for physical pleasure and enjoyment.
"She cast a knowing, amused eye over her surroundings, and shared the pleasures on her plate with the enthusiasm of a born voluptuary."
— William Grimes, Gael Greene, Who Shook Up Restaurant Reviewing, Dies at 88 (2022)
"Dawn Reynolds was an eighteen-year-old alabaster beauty with cobalt eyes and the figure of a ripe voluptuary."
— Martin Torgoff, Everybody Must Get Stoned (2004)
""I told you so!" he said to himself under his breath, and breathing deeply like a voluptuary he advanced towards his victim."
— Lawrence Durrell, The Dying Fall (1983)
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Etymology
Taken from French voluptuaire, or straight from its source Late Latin voluptuārius, itself from Latin voluptārius (“pleasure-seeker; agreeable, delightful, pleasant; sensual”), from voluptās (“delight, pleasure, satisfaction”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns). Voluptās in turn comes from volup (“with pleasure; agreeably, pleasantly, satisfactorily”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose; to want”)) + -tās (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns indicating a state of being).
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What is the meaning of voluptuary?
"voluptuary" (noun) means someone who lives mainly for physical pleasure and enjoyment.
What is another word for voluptuary?
Other words for "voluptuary" include epicurean, epicure, sybarite.
