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voluptuary

 
Dictionary: vo·lup·tu·ar·y   (və-lŭp'chū-ĕr'ē) pronunciation
n., pl., -ies.
A person whose life is given over to luxury and sensual pleasures; a sensualist: "an adventurous voluptuary, angling in all streams for variety of pleasures" (Thomas De Quincey).

[French voluptuaire, from Old French, from Late Latin voluptuārius, variant of Latin voluptārius, devoted to pleasure, from voluptās, pleasure.]

voluptuary vo·lup'tu·ar'y adj.

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noun

    A person devoted to pleasure and luxury: epicure, epicurean, hedonist, sensualist, sybarite. See pain/pleasure.

adjective

    Characterized by or devoted to pleasure and luxury as a lifestyle: epicurean, hedonic, hedonistic, sybaritic, voluptuous. See pain/pleasure.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
  Synonym: sybarite


The adjective voluptuary has one meaning:

Meaning #1: furnishing gratification of the senses
  Synonyms: epicurean, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuous


 
 
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