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voluptuary noun [ vəˈlʌptjʊəri ]

• a person devoted to luxury and sensual pleasure.

voluptuary adjective

• concerned with or characterized by luxury and sensual pleasure.
• "a voluptuary decade when high living was in style"
Origin: early 17th century: from Latin volupt(u)arius, from voluptas ‘pleasure’.


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