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luxury

noun
/ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/UK/ˈlʌɡ.ʒə.ɹi/US

Etymology

From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”).

  1. derived from luxuria — “rankness, luxury”
  2. derived from luxurie
  3. inherited from luxurie

Definitions

  1. Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings

    Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create.

    • Near-synonyms: splendor, grandeur, grandness, decadence

  2. Something desirable but expensive and that one can live without.

    • “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic? […]”

  3. Something that is pleasant and desirable but not necessary in life (whether expensive or…

    Something that is pleasant and desirable but not necessary in life (whether expensive or not).

    • Sir Humphrey Appleby: Bernard, what do you want? / Bernard Woolley: I want to have a clear conscience. / […] / Sir Humphrey Appleby: When did you acquire this taste for luxuries (laugh track)?
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Lustfulness

      Lustfulness; sexual desire or attraction.

      • Fie on sinnefull phantasie: Fie on Lust, and Luxurie:

    2. Copulation

      Copulation; the act or action of sex.

      • Let not the Royall Bed of Denmark be / A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest.

    3. Very expensive.

    4. Not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.

    5. Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above…

      Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above the premium market segment.

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Derived

antiluxury, hard luxury, lap of luxury, luxurist, luxury belief, luxury box, luxury good, luxury tax, nonluxury, quiet luxury, semiluxury, soft luxury, superluxury, ultraluxury, unluxury

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at luxury. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01luxury02expensive03lavish04profuse05pour06flow07multitude08abundance09superfluity

A definitional loop anchored at luxury. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at luxury

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA