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Voluptuary vs Sybarite - What's the difference?

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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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Noun

(voluptuaries)
  • 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 .
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    sybarite

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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:
  • 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 .
  • * 2011 December 16th, William Grimes, “Obituary of Christopher Hitchens” in the New York Times :
  • 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.

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