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Luxury vs Epicurism - What's the difference?

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Luxury is a synonym of epicurism.


As nouns the difference between luxury and epicurism

is that luxury is very wealthy and comfortable surroundings while epicurism is epicureanism.

As an adjective luxury

is very expensive.

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

    External links

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    epicurism

    English

    Noun

  • Epicureanism
  • *1843 , '', book 4, chapter IV, ''Captains of Industry
    • Deep-hidden under wretchedest god-forgetting Cants, Epicurisms , ; forgotten as under foulest fat Lethe mud and weeds, there is yet, in all hearts born into this God’s-World, a spark of the Godlike slumbering.