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Definition of Sybaritism
1. n. Luxuriousness; effeminacy; wantonness; voluptuousness.
Definition of Sybaritism
1. Noun. luxury; wantonness; voluptuousness ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sybaritism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sybaritism
Literary usage of Sybaritism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oxford and Her Colleges: A View from the Radcliffe Library by Goldwin Smith (1893)
"... made the University a place, not of education and learning, but of dull
sybaritism, and a source, not of light, but of darkness, to the nation. ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, I. 112. sybaritism ... [= F. sybaritism e ; <
Sybarite + -ism.] The practices of Sybarites ; voluptuous effeminacy ..."
3. Essays on Questions of the Day, Political and Social by Goldwin Smith (1893)
"But there is nothing now to prevent an hereditary Peer from sinking into sybaritism,
and into sybaritism, for the most part decent and qualified, ..."
4. The Religious Sentiments of the Human Mind by Daniel Greenleaf Thompson (1888)
"The tendency to sybaritism is undoubtedly increased by whatever destroys ...
It must now be brought to mind that sybaritism is one of the phases of the ..."
5. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1885)
"Robust and masculine habits seem to have given place to a sort of sybaritism of
soul, which renders the soul adverse to all personal ..."
6. Oxford and Her Colleges: A View from the Radcliffe Library by Goldwin Smith (1893)
"... made the University a place, not of education and learning, but of dull
sybaritism, and a source, not of light, but of darkness, to the nation. ..."
7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, I. 112. sybaritism ... [= F. sybaritism e ; <
Sybarite + -ism.] The practices of Sybarites ; voluptuous effeminacy ..."
8. Essays on Questions of the Day, Political and Social by Goldwin Smith (1893)
"But there is nothing now to prevent an hereditary Peer from sinking into sybaritism,
and into sybaritism, for the most part decent and qualified, ..."
9. The Religious Sentiments of the Human Mind by Daniel Greenleaf Thompson (1888)
"The tendency to sybaritism is undoubtedly increased by whatever destroys ...
It must now be brought to mind that sybaritism is one of the phases of the ..."
10. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1885)
"Robust and masculine habits seem to have given place to a sort of sybaritism of
soul, which renders the soul adverse to all personal ..."
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