Voluptuary vs Sybarite - What's the difference?
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One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a sensualist, a pleasure-seeker.
*1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1131-2:
*:‘I told you so!’ he said to himself under his breath, and breathing deeply like a voluptuary he advanced towards his victim.
*2005 , Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home , Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 147:
*:Dawn Reynolds was an eighteen-year-old alabaster beauty with cobalt eyes and the figure of a ripe voluptuary .
A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.
* 1969 , Victor Ernest Watts (translator), (author), The (Consolation of Philosophy) , (Penguin Books), book III, chapter iv, page 87:
* 2011 December 16th, William Grimes, “Obituary of Christopher Hitchens” in the New York Times :
As nouns the difference between voluptuary and sybarite
is that voluptuary is one whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a sensualist, a pleasure-seeker while sybarite is a person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.voluptuary
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* See alsosybarite
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(en noun)- Although the proud lord clothed himself // In purple robes and gem-stones white, // Yet Nero grew to all men’s hate // A wild and cruel sybarite .
- Thus began a dual career as political agitator and upper-crust sybarite . He arranged a packed schedule of antiwar demonstrations by day and Champagne-flooded parties with Oxford’s elite at night.