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Luxury vs Exquisite - What's the difference?

luxury | exquisite |

As nouns the difference between luxury and exquisite

is that luxury is very wealthy and comfortable surroundings while exquisite is fop, dandy.

As adjectives the difference between luxury and exquisite

is that luxury is very expensive while exquisite is especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.

luxury

English

(wikipedia luxury)

Noun

(luxuries)
  • Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
  • Something desirable but expensive.
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  • *:“[…] 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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    exquisite

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.
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  • *:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
  • (lb) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
  • ; far-fetched; abstruse.
  • Of special beauty or rare excellence.
  • Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
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  • Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
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  • *(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
  • *:his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite

    • Synonyms

    * beautiful, delicate, discriminating

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) Fop, dandy.
  • * 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 42.
    • So striking was his appearance that two exquisites , emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.
  • *:: 'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite .