Meaning & use
Voluptuousness
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The quality of being full-figured and sensuously attractive, or of providing rich, luxurious sensory pleasure.
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The painting captured the voluptuousness of the reclining figure in soft brushstrokes.
The dessert was praised for the voluptuousness of its dark chocolate texture.
A note on using this word
"Voluptuousness" traces back to the Latin "voluptas," meaning pleasure, and historically carried moral overtones of indulgence before settling into its more neutral modern use describing physical form or sensory richness.
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