luxuriosity en · NOUN
Etymology
From luxuri(ous) + -osity.
Meanings
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(rare, uncountable) The quality of being luxurious.
PRESTIGE LUXURIOSITY / Eggs Benedict Canyon / Fabulous 5 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, 22 kitchens, 9 pools.
1981 October, “[The Hollywood Informer] Informer Classified”, in National Lampoon, page 4, column 4:Talk about wallering in sinful luxuriosity, why it’s nothing to it.
1928 September 23, Sylvia Cornish, “The Gipsy Party”, in Sunday Mercury and Sunday News, number 507, [Birmingham], page 6, column 5:In some rare cases; colic, cardialgia, principally during digestion; coxalgia; virile impotence, and immoderate luxuriosity.
1856, “[Progress of Medicine.] Art. I.—Rademacher, the Empirical Reformer in Germany; his Doctrine and Therapeutics: translated from the “Revue de Thérapeutique Médico-Chirurgicales” of August and September, 1855: by M. Morton Dowler, M. D., New Orleans.”, in Bennet Dowler, editor, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, volume XII, New Orleans, La.: […] [T]he Office of The Daily Delta, […], page 493:Bad sesht to th’ langwid luxuriosity av thim same sait-howlding hogs!
1900, John J[oseph] Jennings, “[Herself and Others.] The Great American Hog.”, in Widow Magoogin, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Dillingham Co., […], page 40:The “cats” in the tent, the pretty pink servitors, the music, the tout ensemble, made a perfect picture of ruralistic luxuriosity, as a certain Pacific Coast hotel newspaper editor would describe it.
1917, The Hotel World: The Hotel and Travelers Journal, volume 85, page 13, column 2:A Hup of extreme velociousness and luxuriosity.
1931, Florence Riddell, Wives Win, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 41:Never knowed th’ comfortableness an’ luxuriosity o’ bein’ one’s own boss till this winter.
1902 March 15, “Around the Village. Some Current Gossip About Local Rubes.”, in The Bayonne Herald and Greenville Register, 35th year, number 2090, Bayonne, N.J., page 4, column 2: