Sybaritism
21pleasure — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Feeling of enjoyment Nouns 1. pleasure, enjoyment, gratification; voluptuousness, sensuality; luxuriousness; gluttony; titillation, gusto; creature comforts, comfort, ease, [lap of] luxury; purple and… …
22indulgence — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Humoring] Syn. coddling, pampering, petting, overweening attention, fondling, babying, spoiling, placating, pleasing, toadying, favoring, kowtowing, gratifying, catering to. 2. [Forbearance] Syn. allowance, lenience,… …
23sybarite — [ sɪbərʌɪt] noun a person who is self indulgently fond of sensuous luxury. Derivatives sybaritic adjective sybaritically adverb sybaritism noun Origin C16 (orig. denoting an inhabitant of Sybaris, an ancient Greek city in southern Italy, noted… …
24epicurism — n. 1. Sensuality, luxury, luxurious living, free living, Sybaritism. 2. Doctrines of Epicurus, Epicureanism, hedonism, eudaemonism …
25debauchery — noun a life of self absorption and debauchery Syn: dissipation, degeneracy, corruption, vice, depravity; immodesty, indecency, perversion, iniquity, wickedness, sinfulness, impropriety, immorality; lasciviousness, salaciousness, lechery, lewdness …
26indulgence — noun 1) the indulgence of all his desires Syn: satisfaction, gratification, fulfillment, satiation, appeasement; accommodation; slaking, quenching Ant: denial, withholding 2) excessive indulgence contributed to his ill health …
27dissipation — n 1. dispersion, diffusion, dissemination, scattering, emission; disintegration, dissolution, decay, fragmentation; disappearance, evaporation, evanescence, fading away. 2. squandering, wastefulness, misuse; prodigality, extravagance, lavishness …
28epicureanism — n 1. epicurism, sybaritism, hedonism, luxuriousness, voluptuousness, sensuality, sensu ousness; gourmanderie, gastronomy. 2. intemperance, self gratification, self indulgence, overindulgence, unrestraint, incontinence, immoderation; revelry,… …
29flesh — n 1. muscle, tissue, fat; meat, beef, mutton, veal, pork; substance, matter, pith, marrow, gist, core. 2. fatness, weight, corpulence, obesity. See fleshiness. 3. body, materiality, corporeality, corporality, physi cality; corporeity, Biol. soma …
30hedonism — n 1. epicureanism, epicurism, sybaritism; Benthamism, utilitarianism, eudemonics, Ethics. eudemonism. 2. pleasure seeking, pursuit of pleasure, la dolce vita; wild or riotous or free living, Inf. high living, Sl. partying, Sl. swinging;… …
