voluptuousness
voluptuousness
nounDefinition of VOLUPTUOUSNESS
excessive pursuit of fleshly pleasures <a painting by the 19th-century artist Ingres that vividly portrays the languorous voluptuousness of a sultan's seraglio>
Related Words venery, wantonness; greed, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness; dissipation, gluttony, immoderation, intemperance, self-indulgence
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