sybaritism

English

Etymology

From sybarite +‎ -ism.

Noun

sybaritism (countable and uncountable, plural sybaritisms)

  1. luxury, wantonness, voluptuousness, or hedonism
    • 1895, Jukichi Inouye, sSketches of Tokyo Life, Chapter 4:
      The samurai and others who flocked from the provinces to the capital when all offices were thrown open to talent, took kindly to the sybaritism which had been one of the causes of ruin to those they were supplanting.
    • 1899, Anne Reeve Aldrich, A Village Ophelia and Other Stories, An Evening With Callender:
      What fiend ever suggested to my landlady the combination of crimson roses and purplish paper? How I hate my environments! Poverty and sybaritism go as ill together as roses and purple paper, but I have always been too much given up to the gratification of the eyes and of the senses.

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