voluptuary

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voluptuary

/vəˈlʌptʃʊəɹi/ UK
/vəˈlʌptʃʊɹi/ UK
/vəˈlʌptʃɹi/ UK
/-tjʊ-/ UK
/vəˈlʌpt͡ʃʊˌɛɹi/ US
/-ˈləp-/ US

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From French voluptuaire, or directly from its etymon Late Latin voluptuārius, from Latin voluptārius (“pleasure-seeker; agreeable, delightful, pleasant; sensual”), from voluptās (“delight, pleasure, satisfaction”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns). Voluptās is derived 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).

noun voluptuaries

One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a pleasure-seeker, a sensualist. But Mrs. Cole, in oppoſition to this, aſſured me that the gentlemen I ſhould be preſented to, were, by their rank and taſte of things, infinitely ſuperior to the being touch'd with any glare of dreſs, or ornaments, ſuch as ſilly women rather confound, and overlay, than ſet off their beauty with; tha
Similar: voluptuarian, bon viveur, epicure, epicurean, hedonist, high-stepper, lapling, lotus-eater, pleasure seeker, pleasurist, sensualist, softling

adjective more voluptuary · most voluptuary

Of or relating to the seeking of sensual pleasure. For as it hath beene well obſerued, that the Arts which flouriſh in times, while vertue is in growth, are Militarie: and while vertue is in State are Liberall; and while vertue is in declination, are voluptuarie; ſo I doubt, that this age of the world, is ſomewhat vpon the deſcent of the wheele; wit
Similar: sybaritic, voluptuarian, Babylonian, decadent, epicureal, epicurean, epicureous, epicurish, hedonic, hedonistic, intemperate, lotus-eating

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noun one whose life is devoted to sensual appetites

Русский	сластолю́бец slastoljúbec

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@misc{voluptuary_2026,
  title = {voluptuary},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/voluptuary},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}