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Luxury vs Contemporary - What's the difference?

luxury | contemporary |

As nouns the difference between luxury and contemporary

is that luxury is very wealthy and comfortable surroundings while contemporary is someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.

As adjectives the difference between luxury and contemporary

is that luxury is very expensive while contemporary is from the same time period, coexistent in time.

luxury

English

(wikipedia luxury)

Noun

(luxuries)
  • Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
  • Something desirable but expensive.
  • *
  • *:“[…] 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??”
  • Something very pleasant but not really needed in life.

    • Antonyms

    * (dispensable thing) necessity

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • very expensive
  • not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.

    • Related terms

    * luxuriant * luxuriate * luxurious * luxuriously

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    contemporary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • From the same time period, coexistent in time.
  • * Cowley
    • A grove born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.
  • * Strype
    • This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe.
  • Modern, of the present age.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Robert L. Dorit , title=Rereading Darwin , volume=100, issue=1, page=23 , magazine= citation , passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 24 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3 , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.}}
  • Relatively recent

    • Synonyms

    * contemporaneous

    Antonyms

    * anachronistic: in the wrong time period * archaic

    Noun

    (contemporaries)
  • Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.
    • ''Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.
    ''The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries .
  • Something existing at the same time.

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