voluptuous
adjective
full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment.
voluptuousness
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a word derived from
voluptuous.
Example Sentences
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Whip the cream until thick and airy but still with a soft voluptuousness about it, and set it aside for a mo.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2017
They included Miuccia Prada, who used fuller-figured models on her runway, and Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton, who staged a Parisian love story around a shooting fountain, with clothes designed with voluptuousness in mind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2015
The great abstractions of existence — capitalism, say, or evolution, or the expanding universe — are no more consequential in our lives than, as Gide insisted, “the voluptuousness of objects.”
From Time ● Mar. 2, 2014
Burrata skews more toward cream than cheese, registering as a general voluptuousness.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2012
The Franklin is voluptuousness itself, most nobly portrayed: It snewed in his house of meat and drink.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
