Definition of Sybaritism

1. n. Luxuriousness; effeminacy; wantonness; voluptuousness.

Definition of Sybaritism

1. Noun. luxury; wantonness; voluptuousness ¹

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Definition of Sybaritism

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sybaritism

swy
swype
swyped
swypes
swyping
swythe
swyve
swyved
swyves
swyving
sybarite
sybarites
sybaritic
sybaritical
sybaritically
sybaritism (current term)
sybaritisms
sybbe
sybbes
sybil
sybilline
sybils
sybo
syboe
syboes
sybotic
sybotism
sybotisms
sybow
sybows

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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